Chrome Engineer: Firefox Is A Partner, Not A Competitor

Re:Chrome Engineer: Firefox Is A Partner, Not A Competitor by jlarocco on Sunday December 25, 2011 @09:49AM (#3391056)

You probably know about this, or maybe this isn't in Firefox, but most of the other browsers use 'keyword' searches from the address bar, which give access to every search engine you have configured.

"g whatever" - Google "whatever"

"w whatever" - Wikipedia search for "whatever"

"a whatever" - Amazon search for "whatever"

...

New shortcuts can be added and the existing ones can be changed. For example, when I type "g whatever", it searches Duck Duck Go.

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Re:Chrome Engineer: Firefox Is A Partner, Not A Competitor by icco on Sunday December 25, 2011 @05:16PM (#3391710)

This exists in both Chrome and Firefox. I've used it for years and loved it.

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Re:Chrome Engineer: Firefox Is A Partner, Not A Competitor by blasdel on Sunday December 25, 2011 @07:36PM (#3391914)

and in Chrome it's populated completely automatically based on your habits! It identifies site search fields in the pages you visit, and associates them with the domain itself and whatever terms you use to get to that domain.

In Firefox it has to be manually configured for each site, with a user-specified prefix. When the fuck is a normal user going to do that?

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