Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by toflon on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:35PM
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I know it's not the same, but if you bookmark "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s" and put in a keyword like "yt". You can type "yt whatever" in the addressbar and it will do a search on youtube.
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by Zren on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:03PM
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You can also use https://www.reddit.com/r/%S with a capital `%S` to avoid escaping the slashes, so you can type "r all/top" or with GitHub "g Zren/reponame"
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by remram on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:38PM
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This is exactly what I needed. I set up this exact shortcut years ago, in Chrome, and have been slightly annoyed for months that "r sub/top" didn't work on Firefox. Thank you stranger.
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by Vinnl on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:10PM
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And if you set DuckDuckGo or Qwant or a different search engine that supports !bangs as your default search engine, you can use those in your address bar - so no need to configure !yt, !w, !s etc manually.
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by rasmussondk on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:21PM
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https://www.givero.com has the full range of DDG bangs - and shares its revenue with good causes.
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by 0x5f3759df-i on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:42PM
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If you use DDG as your default search engine you can use bangs to get something kind of similar, typing "!yt search query" for example
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by snaky on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:04PM
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> uBlock and other useful extensions, where Chrome doesn't have any.
The most underrated and undermarketed to the average user Firefox feature.
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by b5u on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:23PM
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I too have switched on both mobile (Android) and PC. The only thing I would really need now is that the sync is automatic and I don't have to manually trigger it.
The main benefit would be to browse something on your phone then be able to access it on your desktop via Library > Synced Tabs - no need to send it or sync it manually (which require additional steps/taps).
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by samirm on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:42PM
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I just wish FF Focus would let you sync your browsing history :(
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by hexandcube on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:13PM
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But Focus doesn't store your browsing history.
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by samirm on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:27PM
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Yeah I know, I'm just expressing my desire that it would.
It's nice, clean, simple and nowhere near as "bloaty" (for lack of a better word) as normal FF on android. I use it as my default browser on my phone, but (for some reason[1]) every now and again it dumps articles I leave open and then I am no longer able to find and read them :/
[1] I have a feeling it happens after every update.
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by numbers on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:32PM
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I'm on iOS using firefox and I had no idea you can install extensions on the Android version of firefox, that's very cool!
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by MattSteelblade on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:55PM
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I agree. I would absolutely love tab to search in Firefox. The bookmark keyword is inferior
Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
by asdff on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:50PM
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By far the biggest annoyance with firefox on mobile is that when you open the browser, are presented with all your tabs, and a toolbar which only searches your open tabs rather than just being a toolbar that you can type in a website, or a search term, or also search amongst your open tabs.
The only feature I hope for is "hit tab to search" after typing a domain name in the search bar. For example in Chrome I can type "youtube.com" and then hit tab, and then type in a search query.