Firefox 28 Release Notes

Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes by nirvdrum on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:29PM (#7422884)

It's admittedly a corner case, but I've searched phrases that contain URLs and have had them get treated as a URL rather than search phrase in Chrome. In that case, I just drop to google.com and issue the search from there.

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Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes by fournm on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:39PM (#7422972)

I actually run into this one (or its opposite, a URL getting treated as a search) fairly frequently, which is pretty annoying every time.

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Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes by pgeorgi on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:42PM (#7423001)

ctrl-k works as "go to search box" in both browsers. For Chrome, that means focussing on the address bar and presetting it to "? ".

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Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes by nirvdrum on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:56PM (#7423126)

Nifty. That would certainly do the trick. Thanks!

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Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes by sp332 on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:47PM (#7423053)

If you prefix your query with a ? it will be sent to your default search provider instead.

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Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes by nirvdrum on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:55PM (#7423119)

Thanks for the tip. I was unaware. But of course, if I have to think about it, it's failed its primary function of pretending I shouldn't have to care :-P

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