Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips
by TeMPOraL on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:52PM
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There used to be a GUI for that. Then they removed it. The functionality is still sorta, kinda available, in varying and increasingly undiscoverable ways.
Last time I checked, you had to navigate to a search engine (and/or make a search with it?) and hope its author published some magic special microformat metadata that identifies it as a search engine - then Firefox would helpfully offer you an option to add it as a search engine, somewhere in the address bar. I don't remember if it had any indicator visible by default, or if you had to right-click the address bar first.
And now I learned they "improved" this once again - hiding the feature under a right-click on a search box.
It really seems like browser vendors want to soft-kill this options. I'm just not sure why, especially when it comes to Firefox.
Last time I checked, you had to navigate to a search engine (and/or make a search with it?) and hope its author published some magic special microformat metadata that identifies it as a search engine - then Firefox would helpfully offer you an option to add it as a search engine, somewhere in the address bar. I don't remember if it had any indicator visible by default, or if you had to right-click the address bar first.
And now I learned they "improved" this once again - hiding the feature under a right-click on a search box.
It really seems like browser vendors want to soft-kill this options. I'm just not sure why, especially when it comes to Firefox.