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0 pointsreitanqild10y ago0 comments

Awesomebar for one.

Being able to just type in the random things you remember from a url / title (I think it combines them) and have FF narrow down the alternatives, -fast, is something I haven't found in any other mainstream browser.

Another aspect is it doesn't automatically send everything you type to google (I don't worry to much but it is a nice touch.) Maybe the average user is confused by having a separate search field in addition to the address bar but I like it. (And yes, you can search from awesomebar as well, although there is no suggest feature.)

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_yy10y ago· 4 in thread

> Being able to just type in the random things you remember from a url / title (I think it combines them) and have FF narrow down the alternatives, -fast, is something I haven't found in any other mainstream browser.

Chrome has exactly the same feature. You can disable Google Instant, too, but it's actually a really useful feature.

reitanqildOP10y ago

Common misconception I guess[0]: Chromes version is not the same. (Unless I am seriously wrong.)

Try to type

   new com <part of title of something you read on hn today>

to test. On FF and PM this just works but on Chrome I still don't think it works.

[0]: which might explain why not everyone is using the better browser :-P

ino10y ago

That has always worked for me on Chrome. On the other hand, chrome lets me use the websites own search without setting up anything. For example:

you [tab] searches on youtube. news [tab] searches hn. I've never set it up and works with almost every site I've performed a search on.

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efdee10y ago

That works for me on Chrome. The misconception might be on your side ;-)

joshuacc10y ago

Just tried it in Chrome and it has the exact same behavior as FireFox.

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lobster_johnson10y ago

Safari does this, as does Chrome. For example, typing "webex" will show this discussion as one of the autocompletion suggestions.

Safari will suggest also suggest things like Wikipedia articles and popular sites. Similarly, if I type "imdb michael mann", Safari will suggest "Search imdb.com for michael mann".

Firefox's location bar is arguably much worse than both Safari and Chrome — it won't really autocomplete anything except "search Google for this" and bookmarks/history. Safari also leaves the search standing in the location bar when you submit it, whereas Firefox replaces it with an obscure, unreadable google.com URL.

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