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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

what do you do about googles 'omnibar'? its the most infuriating combination of address and search boxes, and there is absolutely no way to turn it off.

oh yeah, one way: firefox.

its still triggers me to this day as the last straw for me and google

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Firefox has omnibox and it’s not as easy to turn off as you think. The immediately available settings do some things like add the “search” box back but the “URL” box still functions as the omnibox. Have to play around with about:config and even then I haven’t figured out how to change it turn back time to the before times.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have never had firefox mistake a url for a search, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have plenty of times, which is why I went hunting for a way to disable it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

FYI, the magic about:config key that you need to set to false is "keyword.enabled". After that Firefox will finally stop using any non-url string as a search query and will instead say say "Hmm. That address doesn’t look right. Please check that the URL is correct and try again."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

huh. did you remember to feed the fox all the cookies websites give you? that normally keeps her happy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm out of ideas. Best to bury your computer in the back yard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Settings -> Search -> Add search bar in toolbar?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes that is the setting to turn on the “search bar” but it doesn’t revert omnibar to only URLs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

omnibox is one of the biggest QOL improvements browsers ever got IMO. Frees up screen real estate and is very intuitive. If you don't want to navigate to your domain-like search string just add a space and a comma or something similar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

the most infuriating combination of address and search boxes

From a UX perspective, those are both ways to start a navigation to a new page, and it's almost always clear from context which is intended (is the string formatted as a URL? Treat it as such. Otherwise, treat it as a search string). The only hiccup is when actually searching for strings that look like a URL (no whitespace, includes periods), but that happens rarely enough that I'm perfectly happy to manually go to a search engine for those cases. Otherwise, Cmd+L-"type my thoughts"-Enter works smoothly for me in both cases (on Firefox for personal laptop, or Chrome for work one).

What are the issues that you experience with this combined flow?