My favorite is "?", which is not documented in this link. It forces search instead of resolving a domain name.
E.G: if I type "path.py", looking for the python lib with this name, Firefox will try to go to http://path.py, and will show me an error. I can just add " ?" at the end (with the space) and it will happily search.
It's a fantastic feature I wish more people knew about.
It very well done as well, as you can use it without moving your hands from the keyboard: Ctrl + l gets you to the URL bar, but Ctrl + k gets you to the URL bar, clears it, insert "? ", then let you type :)
It's my latest FF illumination, the previous one was discovering that Ctrl + Shirt + t was reopening the last closed tab.
Not sure you're aware of this one too... But, you might like the "Ctrl+Tab" shortcut as well. With it you can alternate between the last few active tabs, with thumbnails. Really handy.
I don’t think I’ve come across a single Firefox user that ever uses keyboard shortcuts that has left it that way—all have found the “Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order” preference and turned it off, so that it goes through tabs in order, like literally every other program I’ve ever encountered does with tabs. (Yes, Alt+Tab does MRU window switching, but that has never been the convention for Ctrl+Tab tab switching.)
Mind you, MRU switching is still useful behaviour; Vim has Ctrl+^ to switch to the alternate file which is much the same concept, and Vimperator et al. used to do the same (on platforms where Alt+number switched to the numbered tab, rather than Windows’ Ctrl+number), no idea whether equivalent extensions can do that any more. I have a Tree Style Tab extension that makes Shift+F2 do that, and it suits me.
If you keep Control+Tab set to cycle through tabs in recently used order, you can use Command-Shift-Left/Right or Control-PageUp/PageDown to cycle through tabs in tab-bar order instead.
Additionally, you don't need an extension to jump to a tab anymore. Command-[1-8] goes to that number tab in the current window, where 1 is the leftmost tab. Command-9 goes to the rightmost tab.
Thank you so much for this! Another handy and often overlooked feature are the shortcuts for bookmarks. And with %s in the URL you can search/navigate pretty fast. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s with the shortcut "w" could bring you the according article if you type "w foobar"
"that formerly beloved browser feature that seems to have lost the battle to 'address bar autocomplete'."
But at least in firefox, if you type "*" then your searched terms in the URL bar, it actually queries your bookmarks !
There are many such operators, you can search in your history ("^"), your tags ("+"), you tabs ("%"): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-keyboard-sh...
My favorite is "?", which is not documented in this link. It forces search instead of resolving a domain name.
E.G: if I type "path.py", looking for the python lib with this name, Firefox will try to go to http://path.py, and will show me an error. I can just add " ?" at the end (with the space) and it will happily search.
It's a fantastic feature I wish more people knew about.
It very well done as well, as you can use it without moving your hands from the keyboard: Ctrl + l gets you to the URL bar, but Ctrl + k gets you to the URL bar, clears it, insert "? ", then let you type :)
It's my latest FF illumination, the previous one was discovering that Ctrl + Shirt + t was reopening the last closed tab.