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title: firefox address bar tips
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author: erxeto
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description: Some useful tips for using the firefox address bar more
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efficiently
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-->
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# Firefox address bar.
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The address bar has become our entry point to the internet these days.
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Firefox in its default configuration does some sort of _smart_ guess on
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what you type there. If it resembles a [URL][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL]
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then the browser makes that request. If not, it sends the string you typed
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to your default search engine. It also includes some fuzzy search matches
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from your history and all that, which is fine 90% of the time, but
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sometimes you need a bit more control over what results it shows you.
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# Changing the address bar behaviour
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This is a list of modifiers you can set at the beginning of the search to
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tell firefox what do you want to see on the results, a kind of filtering:
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```
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^ to search for matches in your browsing history.
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* to search for matches in your bookmarks.
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+ to search for matches in pages you've tagged.
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% to search for matches in your currently open tabs.
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# to search for matches in page titles.
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$ to search for matches in web addresses (URLs).
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? to search for matches in suggestions.
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```
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# Examples
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So, if you want to search for the word `headphones` in your bookmarks only,
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you can type on the address bar:
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`*headphones`
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And, if you want to include only the results of your browsing history it
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would be:
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`^headphones`
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