I have to admit that I’m not using Firefox’s built-in search bar to search on the Internet. I use the space for other interface elements and search directly on sites that offer search. It is a trade-off, other users make use of the search bar in the browser. One of the things that is missing [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Different teams and individuals are working on the Firefox web browser. Some are improving the web browser’s core, others are working on the interface or experimental extensions that may one day be added to the web browser’s core. One of those experimental spin-offs is the AwesomeBar HD which is now available as a beta release [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I have removed the search form from the Firefox 4 interface in an effort to minimize the user interface of the browser. When I need to search I either load a search engine’s website right away or enter a search term in the Firefox address bar and use the search engine that’s being used by [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Instant seems to be a new buzzword. It began with the release of Google Instant which added automatically updating search results pages to the Google Search engine. InstantFox brings the concept to the Firefox web browser, albeit with some differences and interesting prospects for the future. The extension configures several search engines and options with [...]

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The Firefox built-in page search can be handy at times, especially on large pages or pages where a specific term is not found on first glance. Firefox users just need to press Ctrl-f to open the onpage search form at the bottom of the screen. They can enter a search term there and flip through [...]

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Firefox’s search bar offers direct access to one search engine and pulldown access to all configured search engines. One search engine is always selected as the default search engine and used for searches unless another is selected manually by the user first. Users who often switch between search engines may like the new Firefox add-on [...]

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Web users have two options to search for content on a specific website. They can either use the onsite search engine if available, or perform a search on a search engine like Google or Bing with the site:domainname parameter attached. Theoretically, the first option should provide better results as a search engine. Why? Because search [...]

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The shortcut Ctrl-F opens the default on-page search form in Firefox. Here it is possible to enter a search term, Firefox will automatically jump to the first instance of the term on the page and highlight it. Additional options provided are to highlight all instances on the page, to match the case and to jump [...]

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The default address bar search engine in the Firefox web browser is Google Search. This means that any search phrase that the user enters directly into the Firefox address bar gets send to Google Search which returns either a direct hit or a search results page. Some Internet users might prefer to have a different [...]

Categories: Firefox, Search Engines