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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by Liquid_Fire on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:30AM (#24353009)
On Firefox you can disable this via an about:config setting (set keyword.enabled to false).
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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by jordache on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:39AM (#24353089)
ahh cool.. but a binary toggle is a bit to coarse.

it would be nice if the input string contains a whitespace, it will perform the search engine query for you automatically, or allow some custom regex expression to determine whether to query search engine.

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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by gruez on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:02AM (#24353928)
Or just have two text inputs[1]: one for url and one for search, rather than trying to overload two functions into one text input and trying to guess what the user wants.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-search-bar-firefox-...

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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by jordache on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:43PM (#24355009)
oooo didn't know that setting was available!
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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by clinta on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:22AM (#24354112)
In your search settings you can add keywords. So if you set ? as the keyword for google you can type '? foobar' into the address bar to google for foobar.
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