On: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

[Hextinium]

Am I missing something here? There is no article just a download link correct?

I use Firefox exclusively because of the sidebar tab extension and will probably use it until Firefox dies a slow death.

[gravy → Hextinium]

Chrome's "Press Tab To Search" is way too useful for me to switch...

[tapoxi → gravy]

In Firefox you can find the search field on a page, right click, and 'add a keyword for this search'. Then you can just type that keyword in the address bar, for instance 'wp searchtermhere' for wikipedia.

[inyorgroove → tapoxi]

That is great and all. Why do I have to type of the full keyword? tab completion on chrome is killer for this.

[JoshMnem → inyorgroove]

There's a better way in Firefox.

In Firefox, go to Preferences -> Search and click on "Add search bar in toolbar". Also uncheck "Show search suggestions in address bar results".

Then ctrl-l will only autocomplete URLs and ctrl-k will search. Once you're in the search box, press TAB to cycle through your search providers. You can add additional search providers easily.

[inyorgroove → JoshMnem]

Slightly better still not there. If I have 15 search providers I have to press TAB 15 times to get to the last one, that is tiresome. I can search amazon/ebay/npm/rubygems/mdn/etc without looking at the screen or keyboard with chrome. I have probably >10 search engines I use daily.

[JoshMnem → inyorgroove]

You can set custom keywords that are the same as on Chrome. You just won't need to press TAB. I don't use that feature, but it's described here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches

I didn't think about adding sites like rubygems and mdn, but that's a good idea.

Edit: I just tried it and it works. Example: create a bookmark in Firefox and change the URL to the one below. Set the keyword to "r" in the bookmarks editor. Then you can type `r devise` in the address bar to search rubygems.

    https://rubygems.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=%S

[inyorgroove → JoshMnem]

I guess I just need to choose better "keywords"

[lousken → inyorgroove]

what does it mean full keyword? why would you want to use more than one letter? I have it set so that:

? - default search engine

w - wikipedia

t - dictionary

y - youtube

d - duckduckgo

[mehlmao → gravy]

I switched back from Chrome to Firefox 5 years ago. This is the only feature that I miss.

I've switched to DuckDuckGo, and using their ! operators (!w for Wikipedia, !map for Google Maps) picks up most of the slack.

[minikites → gravy]

Use DuckDuckGo and their ! operators.

[soulofmischief → gravy]

Can't be bothered to hit Ctrl+K?

[inyorgroove → gravy]

Poking around for a few minutes, looks like search engines can only be added via addons? This feature is too much of a time save to switch.

[jrochkind1 → gravy]

Huh, I could swear back when I used FF many years ago, it had this feature. Did it disappear?

[samfriedman → Hextinium]

It's a response to Chrome's decision to neuter ad blocking in the base product.

Maybe we can get the black bar up too ;)

[darkpuma → Hextinium]

The content is:

> Switching to Firefox is fast, easy and risk-free. Firefox imports your bookmarks, autofills, passwords and preferences from Chrome.

    1. Select what to take from Chrome.
    2. Let Firefox do the rest.
    3. Enjoy the web faster, all set up for you.

Pretty brief article, but that's the point isn't it? Firefox makes it easy to switch, hence the article is brief.

Edit: This page (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/download/) is the firefox download page. The article linked (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/switch/) is not that page, it's a page specifically explaining the [trivial] process of switching from Chrome. It also happens to have a download link.