Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users

Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users by pronik on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:47PM (#28869047)

Firefox actually had both, you could always search with the "main" bar. That's why having two has been so infuriating over the years, if I ever had to use Firefox, I've removed the search bar immediately.

However, one thing that Firefox failed to fix over dozens of versions have been one-word-searches, which Chrome handled correctly while Firefox tried to resolve that one word as a domain and didn't even fall back to search if that failed. That single thing has brought me back to Chrome within minutes every time I've wanted to try Firefox again.

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Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users by WorldMaker on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:28PM (#28870407)

Prefix one word searches with a question mark and then space ("? ") will always search in Firefox. Old Power User trick from decades ago even when Firefox still had a split search box by default. (There's also search keywords to force it to search with a non-default search provider such as starting a search with "@wikipedia " to search Wikipedia.)

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Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users by LinAGKar on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:30AM (#28875299)

Yes, I removed the search box and used search keywords long before they changed it.

For the single word searches, I've never noticed such a problem. It should try to resolve it first, in case it exists on your LAN, and falling back to search works fine for me.

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