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I really appreciate adding the ability to enable custom search engines for searching with the address bar. As someone who just types my searches direct to the address bar, not having the (infosec.exchange)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I really appreciate @firefox adding the ability to enable custom search engines for searching with the address bar. As someone who just types my searches direct to the address bar, not having the option to use my search engine of choice was a problem that's now solved! #Firefox

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Is that not a thing in other browsers? I haven't used Chrome since 2010 maybe, but I still remember it being a thing back then?

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

It is in chrome, but implemented differently. Firefox actually does it better since you can save them as bookmarks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I think it's more intuitive in Chrome, but much more powerful in Firefox. Personally I didn't know that you could do this in Firefox until today

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