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Firefox Will Soon Offer One-Click Buttons For Your Search Engines
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today unveiled some of the new search features coming to Firefox. The company says the new additions are "coming soon to a Firefox near you" but didn't give a more specific timeline. The news comes less than a week after Mozilla struck a deal with Yahoo to replace Google as the default search engine in its browser for U.S. users. At the time, the company said a new search experience was coming in December, so we're betting the search revamp will come with the release of Firefox 34, which is currently in beta. In the future release, when you type a search term into the Firefox search box, you will get a list of reorganized search suggestions from the default search provider. Better yet, a new array of buttons below these suggestions will let you pick which search engine you want to send the query to.
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I was just saying to myself, damn, it's almost impossible to search the net in Firefox. Without some kind of singular button, I was a ship at sea. This update is a godsend and I now die happy.
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It's called QuickSearchBar, and it rocks! And since we're on the same subject, "Add to Search Bar" is handy too!
Bye!
I made a maxthon plugin over 10 years ago that did that. Moved on to a real OS, Linux, and a real browser, Chromium.
Are they going to announce a search partnership with early 90's search engine, WebCrawler and social networking site MySpace? Will it allow them to explore new realms of synergistic management and development?
I get that new features can make a better user experience, but what is the point of this. Users can already pick what search engine they want and there are so many, many plug-ins to customize search already.
I use google, and for some reason, i can type something into the search box, I'll get auto-suggestions and one click action.
Yes, I already have 1 click search action in the current build of firefox without doing anything.
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More fucking popup menus.
FF finally managed to totally jump the shark when they introduced the Australis interface. Since then I've used Pale Moon - same code base, same plugins, without all the nonsense. If all this ugly bling ensures their survival, (and their deal with Yahoo certainly counts as 'ugly bling'), then more power to them - but as long as Pale Moon keeps going strong, it really doesn't matter to me any more.
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unless I use a screen-keyboard, I need to change my hands from the keyboard to the mouse and back again for this "one-click-experience". Thats stupid. My setup has "one keypress search" (ok actually two if you count whitespace), which is far more better. I use an already existing feature. My most important search sites get such shortcuts. My current prefixes are:
w : en.wikipedia.org
s: en.wiktionary.org
d: duckduckgo.com
a: web.archive.org (link down? just paste URL, pos1 and a + space)
g: google.com
y: youtube.com
Best thing is, it isn't cluttered up with all that ebay or other sites. Disadvantage of course is that I have to set it up on each computer I use firefox on.
Spending all that money just so people can change the default engine back to google.
Why does Yahoo still exist?
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First they introduce multiple clicks to get to the menu, now they are introducing single click to search. How inconsistent. Is this the law of conservation of clicks?
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
So, I'm going to search for something in Wikipedia (or any other installed search engine) and Yahoo does the autocomplete for it - that's a privacy invasion.
Waterfox - a Firefox fork with legacy extension support, security updates and better privacy by default.
It all about marketing yahoo and pushing people to use the default search providers. I mean yahoo is paying them millions of dollars its what Yahoo wants not really what FF wants. maybe the numbers are very different then what we think they are. Meaning people who actually use the default search and search bar/box whatever ya want to call it
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Can I turn this feature off? I absolutely hate it when applications try to second guess me, especially when it disrupts what I am in the middle of doing. Right at the top of my feature hate list are:
1) Autocomplete, because the suggestions that come up are generally not what I wan't any way, and they can easily become distractions that lead your thought processes astray.
2) Spellchecking as you type, because a) it doesn't prevent the stupid 'there/their' type errors, and b) minor spelling mistakes don't actually matter that much in an age where people tend to write SMS style lingo.
3) Search-as-you-type, because I actually hardly ever want simple, linear, single-term search functionality, and it only adds noise and distraction and costs performance. I want to be able to type in my search terms, revise them and then send off the query.
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The awesome bar used to be awesome. But somewhere along the line it got changed to just search whatever search engine you have selected in the search engine box. Useless. You have to make search keywords and type them if you want to search specific sites. I just want it to always search google when it doesn't have a match.
I imagine there's a config setting for this but I haven't figured it out yet
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Sorry to toot my own horn, but is that the only way people search?
I had to write the one below because the current search bar is woefully inadequate.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-menu-plus-plus/?src=search
Ctrl+K to get to the searchbar
Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down to select the search site
Type
Enter
Admittedly I had a hard time finding out that Ctrl+Up/Down would change the search.
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