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The only reason I use Brave is that I can type “you” + tab to directly enter YouTube search from the URL input field, and this works for gMaps and Amazon. For t

The only reason I use Brave is that I can type “you” + tab to directly enter YouTube search from the URL input field, and this works for gMaps and Amazon. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to configure this in Firefox.

occamschainsaw 5y ago
You can get similar functionality in any browser by setting DuckDuckGo as your default search engine (so you can search from the URL input field and using bangs. So "!yt search term" in the input field (without quotes) would search YouTube. DDG is sufficient for 99% of searches for me, and when it fails I just use the !g bang for Google search. You can check all the bangs available here: https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang Edit: !m or !gmap for Google Maps, !a for Amazon
jmiskovic 5y ago
In Firefox almost any search box can be right clicked and there is an option "Add a keyword for this search". If you use "y" shortcut for youtube, then your URL entry is "y gangnam". Also if you use DDG as your main URL search engine, they have bunch of "bang" shortcuts that redirect your query to online searches. For yt you'd use "!you gangnam". Others can be found here: https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- nipponese 5y ago
  Thank you and the others who recommended this!
eythian 5y ago
In Firefox, right-click in the youtube search box and you can make a keyword search bookmark. I can do, for example, 'yt gojira' to search for that, or 'wp goldfish' to search wikipedia, and so on.
Liquid_Fire 5y ago
An alternative method to the other comments, which will enable the Tab behaviour you're describing (it will add a search engine with a keyword instead of a bookmark): 1. Add YouTube as a search engine (visit YouTube, click on the + in the search box and click 'Add "YouTube"'). 2. Open Firefox Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts (near the bottom) 3. Set a keyword "you" for YouTube in the table 4. Search by typing "you" + Tab in the address bar
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occamschainsaw 5y ago

You can get similar functionality in any browser by setting DuckDuckGo as your default search engine (so you can search from the URL input field and using bangs. So "!yt search term" in the input field (without quotes) would search YouTube. DDG is sufficient for 99% of searches for me, and when it fails I just use the !g bang for Google search. You can check all the bangs available here: https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang Edit: !m or !gmap for Google Maps, !a for Amazon

jmiskovic 5y ago

In Firefox almost any search box can be right clicked and there is an option "Add a keyword for this search". If you use "y" shortcut for youtube, then your URL entry is "y gangnam". Also if you use DDG as your main URL search engine, they have bunch of "bang" shortcuts that redirect your query to online searches. For yt you'd use "!you gangnam". Others can be found here: https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang

nipponese 5y ago
Thank you and the others who recommended this!

eythian 5y ago

In Firefox, right-click in the youtube search box and you can make a keyword search bookmark. I can do, for example, 'yt gojira' to search for that, or 'wp goldfish' to search wikipedia, and so on.

Liquid_Fire 5y ago

An alternative method to the other comments, which will enable the Tab behaviour you're describing (it will add a search engine with a keyword instead of a bookmark): 1. Add YouTube as a search engine (visit YouTube, click on the + in the search box and click 'Add "YouTube"'). 2. Open Firefox Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts (near the bottom) 3. Set a keyword "you" for YouTube in the table 4. Search by typing "you" + Tab in the address bar

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