ChrisNZL
commented
3 years ago Fauxbar's Address Box (eg search your history or bookmarks) and Search Box (use a search engine) are very separated when it comes to displaying results. There's no mixing of the two at the moment.
You can press Tab to change focus between the input boxes.
To use a search engine from the Address Box, for example Google, type g then Spacebar, or click the little ▼ triangle icon to reveal a menu.
Fauxbar mimics classic Firefox's behaviour from ~2011... Firefox did not have a multi-mix of different results at the time, and thus I did not try to model it as much.
Only in recent years has there been a large shift for letting one input box suggest multiple different actions.
I can see such an option being useful, so this issue and suggestion sounds good. But I would not expect a quick fix or implementation from me in the near future. Fork away and/or do a merge pull request if you fancy.
Related option that might be useful (though not a full solution):
- Options > General > Input Boxes > Display: Search Box then Address Box
michkot
Hi! I recently switched from Opera's (i.e. chromium) flavor of omnibox to Fauxbar. I am very happy with usability of the searches in bookmarks and history. However, since I often switch computers and browsers, I am impaired by my generic muscle memory of "press open new tab shortcut, write w/e I want to google-search and press enter" when using Fauxbar - Fauxbar defaults to select w/e if finds in history/bookmarks that matches the query (if it finds something), and I have to press "up" to select the address bar to "switch" to search/try-open-as-url behavior.
What I desire is one more configuration option, that would make the selection "stick" to the address bar, so that default action is "search/open-url" and I have to press "down" to select any of the query results.
P.S.: I understand that the project is in "mature & not developed" state, hover I hope such a change would be simple & beneficial enough so that I do not have to fork&try-it myself :)