Closed Bug 715108 Opened 13 years ago Closed 6 years ago

search websites with <tab>

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

8 Branch
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Linux
enhancement
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 782557

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(Reporter: de.techno, Unassigned)

Details

Suppose a user has entered a valid website name or a URL. Pressing <tab> will make FF search the that website using a search engine like Google. Suppose, I want to search for a website named abc.com, then I enter abc.com in the URL and press <tab>, this will make FF enter the query with site:abc.com to Google.

Unfortunately <tab> is already a common key for changing focus. I think if you wanted to do something like this, you could set up a bookmark keyword search for an address similar to this, and just have a %s for inserting the search term.

I can't really see us doing this specifically in Firefox at this time, and there's been no other requests for it.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX

we actually have a few request, I don't think we'll do it same way as Chrome for the reasons Mark explained, but we are looking into possibilities.

Resolution: WONTFIX → DUPLICATE
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