When I open a new tab in FF24, the cursor focus goes to the address bar, which is very annoying because my home page is Google and, by habit, I start typing stuff thinking it goes in the search box. Is there any way (about:config
) to switch the focus by default from the address bar into the first text box in HTML (which, in the above example, would be the Google search box)?
1 Answer
No, not by default, at least not by using any of the hundred or so extensions that I looked at in the Search category - there are about a thousand others.
However, whatever you type in the address bar, if it's not a web location, gets searched in your currently selected search engine. You can press Ctrl+K
(or on Mac, Cmd+K
) to move the focus to the browser window's search box, where Alt (or Option) and the up/down arrow keys permit you to select a search engine.
If you switch to Chrome, you can press Tab to move the focus to the page's search box.