Questions tagged [awesomebar]
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Make Chrome's Omnibar behave more like the Firefox AwesomeBar
One of my favorite features of the Firefox AwesomeBar is that I can simply type a substring of any URL or page title in my history and it finds all matches sorted by how frequently they were accessed.
Example: I simply type "ask" when I want to ask…
Agnel Kurian
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Make Google Chrome's address bar prefer page titles to domain names when offering completions?
I've recently switched from Firefox to Chrome, and the thing I miss most from Firefox is the "Awesome Bar" that suggests completions for what I type primarily based on page titles, and then secondarily based on domain names.
Chrome offers both…
Ryan C. Thompson
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Change the default search engine for Firefox's address bar
I love the ability to just type something into Firefox's address bar and do a Google search. But I was wondering if there was some way to customize what search engine Firefox used?
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How to speed up the Smart Location Bar (Awesome Bar)?
The Firefox Awesome Bar is indeed awesome. But, lately I see that it has become slow. On entering some characters it even freezes for a few seconds (freezing the entire browser).
Why does it slow down? Is there a way to speed it up?
(The OS is…
Ashwin Nanjappa
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Firefox keyword search without URL escaping
According to the documentation of keyword searches, you can specify %S instead of %s in a bookmark to prevent escaping. However, this is not working for me: trying to make a quick search for Wayback Machine always results in escaped URLs being…
Sam Brightman
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Why is the Firefox location bar so slow?
I don't understand, Firefox is a great browser, but the location bar is so slow. It literally was stuck for 30 seconds looking up something in its database.
Is there a way to tell it to stop trying to be so smart about matching URLs?
(Edit: is there…
Jason S
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Firefox like address bar in Chrome
Firefox's AwesomeBar searches history including the titles of pages incrementally. How can I get Chrome to also search the titles in the history?
For example, for this very page, in Firefox, I can search "Firefox Lik" and this page's address shows…
Naseer
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Remove URLs by domain from Firefox history and awesome bar
At my job, we recently move a lot of back-end services (e.g. ticket tracking, reporting, admin) from one server to another. Unfortunately, the way that our servers are configured, we're not using hostnames which can just move from one server to…
Doug Harris
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How to make firefox awesomebar "switch to tab" first of the propositions list?
In Firefox (actually IceWeasel but it doesn't matter) I'd like to be able to quickly switch between tabs using my keyboard. The "switch to tab" feature of the AwesomeBar is exactly what I need, but I would like to have it (if available) always as…
p4bl0
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Hiding certain bookmarks from the awesome bar / autocompletion
In Firefox, I want to hide certain (not all!) bookmarks from the awesomebar / autocompletion on the address field. There once was an addon called "not awesome" that could do that, but it seems like it doesn't exist anymore. Any hint how to now hide…
me.at.coding
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Choose between search and "I'm feeling lucky" at location bar
Normally when I type something that isn't a URL into the address bar I want to search for it, but sometimes I want to go straight to the site. Is there a way I can set Firefox up to do this?
I'd prefer a keyboard-only solution like "type '/' in…
Oscar Cunningham
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Firefox Awesomebar first character?
In the Firefox (3.6.6) Awesomebar:
? grape
searches Google* for "grape".
! grape
shows the "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google page for "grape".
With what other "special" characters can I start the Firefox address bar, and what are their functions?
lance
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firefox URL autocomplete: how to suppress autocomplete for the first few characters?
Firefox's "awesomebar" goes into autocomplete mode as soon as you type in 1 character. That seems silly to me, and it hangs for a few seconds when I first start the program up, as it does its thinking + database queries / caching / whatever.
Is…
Jason S
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Tweak Firefox AwesomeBar to be more like Chrome's Omnibar
Do you know a good way to replicate (more or less) the behavior of Google Chrome's omnibar within Firefox?
I'm especially interested in a way to have Firefox suggest the root of the website when I type, instead of a random page I have visited a bit…
Luk
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Will upgrading Firefox to the latest version clear my Awesome Bar database?
I'm considering upgrading from Firefox 3.6.3 to Firefox 9, but concerned that I'll need to rebuild my Awesome Bar database from scratch. Is this a legitimate concern? Or will my current database be migrated?
An̲̳̳drew
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