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0 pointssmcl4y ago0 comments

Ah I think you're mistaken. We're talking about when you open a new tab in Firefox the default landing page has a little grid showing commonly accessed sites as well as an additional search/address bar which says "Search with google or enter address"

We have the same feelings on this - I also would prefer an explicitly separate search bar and address bar.

Edit: or maybe I'm understanding Ekaros' comment incorrectly? Either way the thing I'm talking about is that there's a combined search/address bar always visible in FF, and when you open a fresh window or tab there's a landing page which has an additional combined search/address bar.

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Ekaros4y ago· 1 in thread

No this is exactly correct.

I can just write the address in address bar if I want. But I do not have search engine as default page or even have one in as bookmark. So I would love to just have a search box where I can copy paste a filename with either full path or as something.py... And browser to not try to access non existent .py domain which only has third-level addresses anyway...

skinkestek4y ago

You can, just go to settings and enable it.

(For everyone wondering why we crazy people stick with Firefox: there are actually a number of technical/ux reasons in addition to not wanting to give control of the web away to a single company.)

skinkestek4y ago· 1 in thread

Aha, very possibly I'm mistaken.

I wondered why anyone still saw the search bar without explicitly enabling it.

smclOP4y ago

Well I'm glad it happened, otherwise I wouldn't have learned that it was actually possible to separate these two bars in Firefox. So thanks for that :D

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