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0 pointscurrysausage6y ago0 comments

I switched from Chrome to Firefox literally this week, and I am missing this so badly. Can't understand why they wouldn't copy this behavior in all these years. I hope they put it on their agenda now.

I was preparing to create my top 25 OpenSearch plugins manually (less popular plugins at addons.mozilla.org often lack autocomplete and have other quality issues). Glad I read this before wasting 2 hours of my life.

Now I'm just switching back to Chrome. Does Mozilla actually expect site owners to create search extensions for ~5% Firefox users (of which in turn ~5% will actively install such an extension)? Firefox performance has come a long way, but Chrome is still way more polished. Apparently, Chrome is at the same time more poweruser-friendly, which really irritates me.

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lorenzhs6y ago· 2 in thread

No need, firefox supports custom search engines, but it a) doesn't store them automatically, you have to manually add them and b) doesn't have as nice a UI for them as chrome does. But it works. Why it isn't implemented better is beyond me, too. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21292283 for instructions.

majkinetor6y ago

Or just use plugin like Vimium that makes this feature cross browser.

currysausageOP6y ago

No autocomplete this way, though

wging6y ago

Create a bookmark with %S for the search query (%s if you need escaping) and a keyword that matches what you want to type as a prefix.

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