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Reviews for Focus site search bar

Focus site search bar by Mathieu CAROFF

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  • by Firefox user 13152535, 4 years ago
    Works as intended. Thanks for this add-on! Any chance you could make it work on the default new-tab page as well?
  • by Richard_Odin_Johnson, 6 years ago
    Very useful add-on--but it hijacks Fx's Ctrl+D shortcut for a purpose that does not seem necessary at all. (Fx uses Ctrl+D to create bookmarks, while this extension's use of Ctrl+Y and Ctrl+Shift+Y seems more than adequate.) I'm hoping the author will after reading this review remove or make optional the Ctrl+D shortcut and reply here, as I can't find any way to reach him directly. If so, I'll happily reconsider my rating.

    UPDATE. I've read the developer's response, which seems to say that I should take the time for more complicated operations--and this is not something that I (or most folks) would want. It does not give a reason that I can comprehend for hijacking Ctrl+D--nor does it provide a way to reach the developer directly. Accordingly, I'm using instead of this add-on the Fox Input addon, which serves the same purpose without any comparable difficulty, and I'm downgrading my rating.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Hi Richard, I'm happy to hear that people are interested in that feature. The reason I originally wanted to block Ctrl+D was because, back then, Firefox would bookmark the page immediately when Ctrl+D was pressed, and it was very annoying, so I was happy to block it.
    If you don't want new Bookmarks to be just dumped, but rather placed where they belong, I advise using Ctrl+B, then drag&drop the tab directly where the bookmark belongs. Still, I'm definitely willing to offer the user the choice of what shortcut to use. I just didn't find a nice implementation that I could reuse.
    Yet, this add-on, as-is, is pretty simple, it's just a user script, so it won't detect keys when the page is not selected. Therefore, as a workaround, you could press Ctrl+L or F6 to unselect the page, then hit Ctrl+D.
    About my reachability, I guess I'll just publish the add-on on Github and direct people to its issue system.