To be clear, I already found an addon that adds a context search menu that is quite useful but this post is to find out what the search box is supposed to accomplish in firefox now and if it can be customized to behave the way it did before.Ī big reason why I didn't leave firefox years ago when everybody was going Chrome was because of the search box (). Is this how it's supposed to work? If it is then _what_ is the purpose of having the search box there? Now I see that changing engines in the searchbox just takes me to the site in question, it doesn't seem to change the 'active' search engine in the search box. I usually do it in conjunction with the context menu (selected text, right click and search used to lookup the word using the active engine in the search box, which I changed depending on what I wanted to look for). I have more than a dozen sites there that I got from Mycroft and I use it anywhere from looking something up on ebay to search for subtitles.

A big reason why I didn't leave firefox years ago when everybody was going Chrome was because of the search box ( ).

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