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Mamus

@firefox should implement bangs. Most people I know don't know exist.

If you’re talking about the hairstyle, yes I would love a way to give my browser bangs! It would look so cute covering the tabs and navigation until you push it out of the way!

You can assign a word to use in front of your search to pick a search engine in Firefox and that has worked for years.

@taladar you mean the @ syntax? Yes, on desktop. And nobody knows it. And it's cumbersome.

@mamus @taladar And, as far as I can tell, not in the search box where I actually run searches on desktop. Only in the address box, which I only use for typing addresses on desktop, not searching.

Keywords don’t need @. I’m using g for google, d for duckduckgo, mg for google maps etc.

For searches? I think that depends more on your search engine

You can tag your favorites already.

Or is it for something else?

It supports them already, there just aren’t any provided by default. They’re called Bookmark Keywords: github.com/jameshealyio/bang-bookmarks

I’d suggest not importing all of them from that list though, there’s a crap load, just pick the ones you want and put them in manually.

GitHubGitHub - jameshealyio/bang-bookmarks: Replicate DuckDuckGo !bang's in Firefox using Keymarks!Replicate DuckDuckGo !bang's in Firefox using Keymarks! - jameshealyio/bang-bookmarks

@azdle no normal user would do that.