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I really appreciate @firefox adding the ability to enable custom search engines for searching with the address bar. As someone who just types my searches direct to the address bar, not having the option to use my search engine of choice was a problem that's now solved! #Firefox

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Is that not a thing in other browsers? I haven't used Chrome since 2010 maybe, but I still remember it being a thing back then?

[–] baked_tea 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well not knowing that is expected from someone who is trying to use twitter tags on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They actually posted this to Mastodon... I think. Fediverse is weird.

[–] baked_tea 6 points 11 months ago

Ah if that's the case I'm the joke

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It is in chrome, but implemented differently. Firefox actually does it better since you can save them as bookmarks

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

@HouseWolf There's supposedly a way you can do it on Chromium browsers but I still can't seem to figure it out. I don't know if Firefox always had the ability. Either way, this is a much, much easier way to do it haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I'm not using Chrome since 2008 but I think it can be done in every browser

I guess on Firefox is easier to add, by right clicking on the search field while chromium browsers require to add it in the settings?

Or maybe you mean the small search icons on the bottom of the address bar, click those to change the search engine

That feature maybe is unique, or maybe Vivaldi has it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you use the address bar frequently, you may be interested in JS bookmarklets with params:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@Crul Thanks for the share!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wait that wasn't a thing yet? That's great tho!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

No it's not new, I think they were just trying to say they like the feature.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Considering how the title came out I wouldn't be surprised if they think it is new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Oh, alright. It is nice!

[–] overat8 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They should remove the words “adding the”. So the sentence would be “I really appreciate Firefox ability to enable custom search”. The way they phrase it sounds like Firefox has recently added the custom search engine function.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah it could have been phrased better. But, no harm done.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@Boomkop3 Evidently, there was a way to do it but I could never figure out how. Now, you just go to a search engine you want to make as a default, open up the address bar drop-down for that search engine and there should be a button at the bottom of the drop-down menu that has the favicon for that search engine with a plus icon. Then, from there, you just set it as the default in the way you would with the built-in options!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nice! User interface design fixes can be the most impactful sometimes