That is exactly what happens in Safari when you long press or right click the open new tab button. Except that this time in Chrome it is an exact duplicate just for completeness purposes. It is already integrated within the "open new tab" plus button so that is all that is needed to be added, alongside the "recently closed" list.
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Tab completion for previously visited search engines
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Allow us to simply type in the first few letters of a domain in which we have previous placed a query in, and search something we want within it's input field. I know you can do this with bookmarks the search field, but I want it to be automatic as well. Both Chrome and Safari have this.
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Fortrikka so like how you can type youtu, then it automatically shows the be.com
Then press tab and you can search it. Like that?
Yes, like that
Vlad Just Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The requirements is just typing in any search input field and having it in your history. Typing the first few letters of the history entry with the ?search query within it's address bar it's enough, and when you press tab it changes to the search input field of that website plus your query.
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Fortrikka It is more complicated then that... You have to actually first search something on the website for it to be remembered.. then there is manage websites setting where you can see them etc, at minimum. We are looking for full specification of the feature as it is not trivial. You can pick a browser which has implemented it the best and suggest that workflow.
Vlad I am guessing Chrome for the user interface, and Safari for the implementation. It is Safari because it provides the option to manually delete the auto search input fields which are automatically created in the menu bar. Automatic is better because it fits the philosophy of "Don't think about it."
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Essentially, what needs to be added is just the search bar, and the recently closed.
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Fortrikka changed the title to Input field history suggestions .
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Vlad I know, but here is the concept: Every website that has a search input field which was placed into the history area which can be found by simply doing a search function with %s or whichever identifier search input fields use to input into the address bar, you simply make every single one of these queries be able to be automatically searched without having to go to the website first. For example, if you type "kagi, tab, then Orion browser", you will search for "Oriokn browser" on kagi. This is also available on Chrome and Firefox as well.
Please note that the right arrow with a line before it is the "tab" key in the video. Please pause at moments in the video if you still do not understand it.
Since this is on Firefox, you may look into taking some inspiration from the code of Firefox's search bar and how it auto completes websites.
Please note that this specific "auto adding" is not yet added. Yes, there exists the option to add custom search engines, but that is not the same as Safari just simply automatically adding all search input fields into the history to be navigated, or even adding input fields as an option to be bookmarked. None of these two options have yet been added.
I would appreciate the adding of two of these functions, but if not enough time then the latter would be appreciable for a while, but Safari's auto search feature is still a nice feature to have for more parity with Safari.
Fortrikka changed the title to Search field tab completion .
I was not. Asking for clarification what is the exact ask?
Fortrikka changed the title to Input field history tab completion .