Firefox new tab has a box in the middle of the page for you to click in and enter text to search in your default search engine - and it immediately starts typing in the URL bar. IF I WANTED TO USE THE URL BAR I WOULD CLICK THERE.

Throws me off every time.

  • kindenough@kbin.earth
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    4 months ago

    I can’t recall this wasn’t a thing. Mildly infuriating surely. What’s really infuriating though…

    Also, if my single keyword search matches an url in my history, it will happily open the url instead of doing a search. Aargh…

    Happens quite a lot so I learned to hit the space-bar after a single keyword search.

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      4 months ago

      That’s a feature, not a bug, and I personally love it.

      There’s an about:config setting for that, too. browser.urlbar.autoFill = false

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        4 months ago

        I like the autofill too, just not when I type in the search bar. I like the url and search functions separated in their own bars.

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      4 months ago

      Glad I’m not only one who space bars after!

      Also fixes autofill when you are trying to search a new query that starts with same string

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      4 months ago

      This happens to me often. I don’t learn, unlike you.

      Always trying to go too fast.

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        4 months ago

        At least you are literate and a scholar in self deprecation.

        Meself, I can push a space-bar quite good after I recall what I was searching for.