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A comment on Firefox 73.

Re:Firefox 73 by fsajkdnjk on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @11:44AM (#22299872)
it would be nice if firefox would stop sending unapproved requests on the background to mozilla's infra. i am tired of blacklisting all those domains in my hosts file. also the famous welcome screen full of google and other trackers... epic joke on the users.

also, still not having custom search engines via keywords in the url bar, like chrome, is so lame.

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Re:Firefox 73 by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @11:52AM (#22299941)
Erm, they've had keywords for ages?

I thought they also had some defaults, but I use "g $word1 $word2" for Google search from the address bar for what feels like over a decade. The don't have the fancy UI to go with it that Chrome has.

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Re:Firefox 73 by lode on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:01PM (#22302176)
I believe parent refers to Chrome's ability to autodetect OpenSearch websites. It is my 1 reason why I keep going back to Chrome.

How this works: Chrome automatically detects when a website supports OpenSearch.

So for instance, if I have previously visited English Wikipedia, next time I start typing "en.w" Chrome will not suggest autocompletiong to en.wikipedia.org, but will also say: "Press TAB to search Wikipedia(en)".

This is much easier than creating custom search keywords. For instance, it also adds quick searching for e-commerce sites I frequent, even though I'd never add a custom search keyword for it.

If there's a Firefox extension that replicates this functionality (autodetection of OpenSearch and integrating with the URL bar) I'd uninstall Chrome today.

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Re:Firefox 73 by rhizome on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:23PM (#22300285)
>custom search engines via keywords

Right-click in a search field; "Add a Keyword for this Search..."

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Re:Firefox 73 by josteink on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:32PM (#22300398)
> also, still not having custom search engines via keywords in the url bar, like chrome, is so lame.

What are you talking about?

Firefox has had this since before Chrome even existed? I’m using it all the time.

Maybe do some research next time?

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Re:Firefox 73 by bradyd on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:09PM (#22302257)
> also the famous welcome screen full of google and other trackers

If you click on the gear icon on the welcome screen you can turn off all of those things in the Firefox Home Content settings. My welcome screen is completely blank.

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