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How to disable Firefox search when not typing on any input field? [duplicate]
I want to play https://vim-adventures.com/, but I can't use any key, as Firefox will automatically start searching for text, as if I press Ctrl + F. I know this is convenient for most case, but here I ...
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How to create a shortcut to search Google Scholar from the address bar in Firefox?
Just want to create open-search queries to search instantly from the search bar for google scholar. This is easy with Brave and Chrome, using Open Search queries. This has been possible with FireFox ...
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Is there a common browser shortcut for jumping to a website’s search bar?
I know Ctrl+L moves focus to the browser address bar, and I use it all the time across browsers. What would be useful though, on sites such as this one, Amazon, or even Google, is a shortcut which ...
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How can I create "keyword shortcuts" for Firefox searches?
Back in the day, it was possible to define Keyword Shortcuts, also known as Custom keywords in Mozilla.
These were similar to Smart keywords, except that they were defined from within the bookmark ...
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Firefox in popup window (no address search bar) ctrl-k navigates to google
In firefox hitting Ctrl+K takes you to the search bar (all fine and good).
However in my webmail client (Zimbra) it pops open windows without the address/search bar. Hitting Ctrl+K there (muscle ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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: 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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