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discovery would primarily come from good documentation

Little worried about that as almost nobody reads the documentation. HIG generally says if you need documentation to discover something, it is not implemented intuitevely. There should be a way to make this obvious.

  • phy replied to this.

    Vlad Hmmm, what about in the right-click of the URL bar:

    Add options with learning hints like Search bookmarks (*). Selecting this would configure the URL bar and move cursor into it ready to type:

    • Vlad replied to this.

        phy Wouldn't that make that popup menu huge?

        • phy replied to this.

            Vlad +4 lines to it. Considering it is being accessed by a mouse, its far less movement than what is currently being asked searching the URL bar for bookmarks (13 lines in example above). If height is a concern, it could be a submenu (named "Search by..." perhaps) to keep it to just +1 line.

                4 months later

                Brief Summary
                Firefox have this bar in the bottom of the "address window" that lets you choose where the search will happen, if you want to search a different place then the default search engine

                Details:

                To some extend its very similar to "Bangs" but not all search engines support that. and this is way more intuative for people who dont know about bangs

                I think this could be super usefull, especially if you could configure what sites you have as options. example.. github, youtube, wiki. whatever fits your work/freetime needs

                My only problem with Firefoxs implementation is that when you actually click the icon of where you want to search, it inserts kinda like a bang instead of taking you directly there, so you still have to press enter after.
                I dont see a need for that extra step.

                  Longely changed the title to Firefox style search options bar .
                    Merged 2 posts from Firefox style search options bar.

                      Vlad

                      Perfect! this looks very close to Firefox

                      Only thing is this is not only relevant for actual Search engines. But also for other stuff like YouTube, Wiki, Github etc..
                      So maybe calling it Search engines is a bit missleading or gives the impression it can only be used for that

                      Not sure what would be a better term tho. Firefox calls it Search Shortcuts

                          a month later

                          Brief Summary
                          In firefox, you can enable what orion calls "bookmark invocation keywords" but instead of searching stuff up, you can search bookmarks, tabs, history, and "actions"

                          Details:
                          i realize that orion already can search bookmarks, tabs, and history already, but these allow you to filter the results to only search that type

                          orion probably can implement:

                          • bookmarks
                          • tabs
                          • history
                          • actions
                          • saved windows
                          • devices

                          Image/Video:

                          actions:
                          basically shortcuts that manage the browser. see the image below

                          • Vlad replied to this.
                            Merged 2 posts from Search shortcuts for bookmarks, tabs, history, actions, etc.
                              4 months later
                              • something shows only Bookmarks searched by "something"
                                ^ something shows only History searched by "something"
                                ? something shows only Suggestions for "something"
                                % something shows only Tabs searched by "something"

                              Nice power user feature import from Firefox. You can find Firefox documentation for it here.

                                7 months later

                                dantep They are planned for development (as are 1000+ other features)

                                    3 months later
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