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Should be off by default by law nowadays (GDPR), but isn’t always.

I guess Mozilla doesn’t know about, because, how do they know how I organize my bookmarks? Privacy first, so no tele-metrics send to Mozilla by default, that’s the first thing I do in every browser. Officially they don’t like it because maintaining the code is to complex, and they claim it is not much used. Mozilla probably doesn’t like keyword search bookmarks, because they can’t sell it.

search in sites that don’t have a proper search field, or a Javacript driven search field:.

search with an easy to remember letter/keyword, easier than scrolling a long list with confusing icons.

search for certain file-types in domain.

Keyword search is easier, than adding search engines by right-clicking on search field in most cases, and add search engine, which doesn’t work on sites that have only Javascript driven search fields (again don’t break the internet!!), and on sites that use url based searches like: /search/keyword Use-cases: Yes, you can monitor and monetize search engine extensions, but they are INFERIOR!!!!! to keyword search in most cases. Well for the user, probably not for Mozilla/Firefox. Absolutely superior to adding search engines as an extension. If you like searching only in a domain, you can setup that as well.

That is a usability gem in Firefox Desktop, but also on Firefox Android. If you switch from google to bing or duckduckgo there is not change in habit, except changing your bookmark from: Really really productive!!!!Īn example, use g chair for searching in your favorite search engine to search for a chair. I need my extensions!! No keyword searchĪ hidden gem in Firefox, just type your keyword of choice and a search-term and search anything you want. But I can’t install it, so can’t really use Firefox Preview.

But I don’t need uBlock anymore, because I have my own (IMHO superior) extension. No support for extensions, except uBlock Origin, which is a great extension. What I miss now at the moment, two major (deal-breaking) things: No support for extensions (yet)