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How do I edit the name of a custom search engine?
I've added a custom search engine in Firefox, but then realized that its name/title was too long.
How do I edit a custom search engine's name in Firefox?
I tried going to 'Manage Search ...
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1answer
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Popup search results for selected text in Firefox
Often, I want to add a relevant hyperlink for a blog post, but I find the tab switching really clumsy.
Is there a Firefox addon/userscript that can:
search Google/Bing for selected text,
display ...
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Is there a search addon for Firefox that allows to add GET/POST variables from current page?
What I am looking for is basically the Firefox equivalent to this Chrome extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/selection-search/gipnlpdeieaidmmeaichnddnmjmcakoe
Now before everybody ...
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1answer
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Is there a way when searching for things to make the highlight more obvious?
I'm using FireFox and sometimes the page is so cluttered when I press ctrl+f it says it found a match but I can't see where on the page it is. Is there a plugin or program I can use to make it more ...
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Cannot run internet search scripts from Xfce keyboard shortcuts
I have created different scripts that I successfully used under Lubuntu/Lxde, including some made to be run by keyboard shortcut that would start firefox and search selected text on the internet.
For ...
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Add Firefox “/” and “'” keyboard shortcuts to Chrome?
I very recently switched to Chrome, and it generally works fine, but my last problem with it is lack of / and ' shortcuts.
For those that don't know:
/ is more or less like ctrl-f
' is like /, but ...
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make firefox's quick find shortcut working in alternate layout as well
I like very much quick find shortcut in Firefox - "/" to search on the page.
But when I switch to alternate layout (Cyrillic) it stops working.
How can I make it works regardless of keyboard layout?
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1answer
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Firefox location bar search: odd behaviour with Comodo firewall
I recently installed Comodo firewall, and it changed the behaviour of my Firefox location bar.
I used to type something there and it either redirected me to a google search page or it actually ...
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1answer
66 views
How to Search for Text Field in a Website with Firefox?
How to Search for Text Field in a Page with Firefox?
What do I put in the find bar?
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1answer
45 views
Select firefox search result
I am working on a daily basis on a web application with very large menus. Also doing lots of other Excel manipulations, copy and pasting, etc., I am quite fond of keyboard shortcuts as much faster ...
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1answer
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In firefox, how can filter bookmarks with non-empty keywords?
In firefox, i can assign quick search shortcuts (keywords) to the search engines in the small search toolbar item (e.g. 'g' for google, 'w' for wikipedia, etc)
I also can assign shortcuts to ...
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3answers
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Weird porn searches showing up in history (NSFW)
A few months ago I went to do a search from the Firefox search page (the default home page) on my computer and one of the previously run searches in the dropdown was for "pee porn." At the time it was ...
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1answer
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Chrome addon for Firefox search bar?
So in Firefox there's an address bar and a search bar right next to it. I happen to have 12-15 different search engines (for various sites) on the search bar.
It's become a habit of mine to click on ...
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2answers
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Firefox/Chrome disable search opening in a new tab
When you select some text with Firefox and Chrome for that matter you can right click the highlight text and search
some query
(highlight the text above and right click)
Search Google for "some ...
4
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1answer
953 views
How to disable address bar search option in Firefox
I couldn't access subfolders in my wamp www directory through Firefox 12.0 a few days ago by typing this in the address bar:
http://localhost/folder/subfolder
Firefox 12.0 starts Google search when ...
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1answer
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search from textarea
In Firefox I can select text and right click to search the selected text in the current search engine is use. This works only for static text; for example any text I select in the textarea (or ...
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How can I disable the search bar getting focus?
I am a Windows 7 user and my browser is Firefox 11. Lately I've been having this pain in the ass problem that seems to not get solved no matter where I go. So, here it goes.
I use key bindings to ...
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1answer
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Firefox removes http:// and treats URLs with spaces as searches
I routinely visit pages like http://trac.server/milestone/Milestone Name Here. In Firefox (11.0 on Ubuntu, but this has happened for a while), the URL is displayed as trac.server/milestone/Milestone ...
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4answers
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Is there any Firefox or Chrome add-on to highlight search terms (and jump to them ?)
There is a cool feature of the Google Toolbar that I have been finding frustrating to live without (since the Google Toolbar is not supported anymore for Firefox, my main browser):
When you google, ...
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3answers
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How to prevent Firefox converting 'localhost/*' URLs into search queries?
Since upgrading from Firefox 3.6.x, my address bar has a quirk that never used to be there. When I type in, for example:
localhost/my_dir/index.php
Firefox turns it into a search query, my search ...
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3answers
492 views
Turn the Firefox location bar into Google search
A few months ago, when I typed something completely irrelevant in the location bar of Firefox, it would take me to Google search results. When I typed something like "facebook", it would take me to ...
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Firefox combobox search
There are sometimes comboboxes on web pages (also known as <select> tags) with so many options that it is hard to read them all.
A solution would be a plugin or extension to search big ...
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1answer
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Search keyword conflict in firefox
Where can I change the search keywords that I've added with "Add a Keyword for this Search..." ?
I've set "m" for google maps (which doesn't work by the way), and I'd like to change it to metacritic. ...
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3answers
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How to disable Comcast mistyped address page?
I upgraded my Firefox to v7 (I am on Ubuntu if this matters). Before, I could type in the address bar "ebay" or "gmail" for example, and it would take me to those sites. After I upgraded, it redirects ...
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1answer
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How to allow Firefox to save forms, but prohibit search bar saving
I wonder if there is a way to make Firefox to continue saving forms (like mail and nickname fields), but stop it from saving search history in the search field next to the address bar?
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3k views
Remove Firefox Custom Search
I am using Linux Mint 10. I would like to how to remove Google custom search results page in Firefox. I would like to have standard Google search results page instead of custom search.
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1answer
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Is it possible to automatically empty the firefox search bar?
I often select something I want to google with the mouse (no [ctrl-c], I'm on X11/Linux), so I can paste it into the search engine box in firefox. However, there's usually already something in there ...
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1answer
256 views
Keeping the in-browser search box active in Google Chrome
In Firefox, if I press /, I can get the in-browser (on-the-same-page) search box to pop up at the bottom temporarily (it will time-out after some short period).
However, if I press Ctrl-F, it will ...
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1answer
117 views
Get back old shortcut keys to search box in Firefox 5
Up to and including Firefox 3 I could press Ctrl+E to switch focus to the search text box - old habits hard to change, I'd rather not adapt to Ctrl+K for this. Is there a way I can change the shortcut ...
6
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1answer
703 views
Is there a way to search the text of my browsing history in Firefox?
I often find myself in the situation where I know I saw something in a web page recently, but don't remember where. I would therefore like to be able to do a full-text search of the contents of my ...
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3answers
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How to disable “web search” in the location bar of a webbrowser?
So sometimes I have passwords in the clipboard, to paste them to different places, etc.
But: Sometimes (rarely :) ) it could occur that I paste the passwords in the location bar of my web browser ...
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1answer
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Drag text to address bar to search
Is there any way to enable functionality to drag text to the Firefox Address bar to search Google? I want Firefox to work like Chrome, in that respect.
From LifeHacker:
But what most people ...
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1answer
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Why are Firefox search suggestions so slow?
On Kubuntu 11.04, the search bar is quite slow when typing for queries. It displays everything fine, but will freeze for a second or two as I'm tying. I'm using the Omnibar addon, so there is no ...
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How to search page content in firefox history (like is possible in Google Chrome)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to search the text of my browsing history in Firefox?
In Google Chrome it is possible to search the content of the pages in your search history (I suppose ...
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Using a firefox keyword for Wolfram|Alpha can't cope with plus signs
I've got a firefox keyword ("alpha") to search Wolfram|Alpha, but if I type something like "alpha 1+1" then Wolfram|Alpha will search for "1 1"; the plus sign gets eaten en route
Luckily for me this ...
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Binding Google Chrome's bookmarks
I used to type
y QUERY
in the Firefox address bar and get http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s&aq=f (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=QUERY&aq=f in this particular ...
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2answers
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How to define a new search provider in Firefox
I frequently use this web site for searching movie subtitles. What I do is to open the page, navigate to the relevant search box, and type in the movie name in it.
I want to speed up this process ...
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1answer
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Prevent Firefox from going to first search result
When I type some terms in the address bar (not the search box!) and hit enter, Firefox searches for those terms on Google, and, depending on some logic either takes me to the search results page or ...
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2answers
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Adding arbitrary search URLs to Firefox search bar
New-ish versions of Firefox (I'm currently on 3.6) have the nifty "search bookmark" feature, which allows you to create searches in the location bar with custom URLs, e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s.
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How do I get a similar awesome bar (from Firefox) in Chrome?
Before switching to Chrome, I always used Firefox, and I always really liked how you could type into the address bar and it would search (a fuzzy search!) for pages that were in the history that ...
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1answer
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Looking for alternative to RoboForm's SearchCards
I use Palemoon (a Firefox build) on Windows 7 x64 and I've recently migrated from RoboForm to LastPass for my password keeping needs.
The only thing I miss from RoboForm, was it's ability to let me ...
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Firefox: show bookmarks location in search result
I've been a user of firefox for years. Like most, I collected a large number of bookmarks, and over time it now contins lots of folders and nested folders...
When I add a new bookmark, I would like ...
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3answers
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How can I search for text in all tabs in Firefox?
I have a number of opened tabs and I want to search for a word in all of them (just as you would do in any decent editor on you desktop).
I found an extension Find In Tabs, but its outdated and ...
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Go from “search” field directly to an anchor in Firefox just pressing enter?
Suppose I'm in the Firefox's "search box" at the bottom of the screen.
The searched string is an anchor in a page I'm using. This searched string is an anchor, that I have to take my hands off the ...
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6answers
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Keyboard shortcut to select any word and search the default search engine using the selected word(s) as the keyword
I want to search google or whatever the default search engine is set in the browser, by selecting a few words in the web page. Can I do this with a simple shortcut, instead of copy pasting the word in ...
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Firefox addon to search Google using “site:[current-website]” keyword?
I'm wondering is there an addon that lets you search (using default search bar preferably) the website in the current tab in Google with the "site:" keyword? This way I don't have to write the keyword ...
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2k views
Firefox open new tab behaviour
When I open a new tab the cursor focuses on the address bar. Is it possible to focus on the search bar by default?
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3answers
920 views
Google Chrome's quick search in Firefox?
I recently switched back to Firefox from Chrome for a number of reasons, but there is one Chrome feature I really miss. For instance, I had the Wikipedia set to search with the keyword "w," so to ...
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1answer
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Firefox: don't allow websites to override the / (slash) key
Some websites override the behavior of the '/' key in Firefox. Normally this opens the incremental search toolbar at the bottom of the page. But on some websites it places the cursor in a search box ...
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Firefox 3.6 - Navigation Toolbar - Google search box language problem
Using Win7 Home Prem with Firefox 3.6
I like using the google search box in the Navigation Toolbar because it's quicker to do a search but as i am English and i am in Thailand it seems to do the ...
