<story><title>Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/704687/8-reasons-to-ditch-chrome-and-switch-to-firefox.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cdrini</author><text>One unique Firefox feature I love that I don&amp;#x27;t see talked about often is how awesome Firefox&amp;#x27;s address bar suggestions are. I can type just a snippet of a URL or a web page title and it&amp;#x27;ll instantly show me all matching URLs I&amp;#x27;ve visited, whether on my desktop or on my phone. It&amp;#x27;s become my primary second brain for finding Google docs, or articles I&amp;#x27;ve read, or GitHub issues. It&amp;#x27;s usually only a few characters before it finds exactly what I want.&lt;p&gt;Eg I type in &amp;quot;Ed&amp;quot;? It shows the URL to my &amp;quot;editions in solr&amp;quot; GitHub issues I&amp;#x27;ve been working on recently. I vaguely recall an article I read months ago on CSS grid? I type &amp;quot;grid guide&amp;quot; and bam it&amp;#x27;s the first suggestion. The spreadsheet I made about user languages? &amp;quot;sheets lang&amp;quot;. That vague API I can never remember the parameters to? Just type &amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;query.json?&amp;quot; And I get all my previous requests as examples!&lt;p&gt;I find Chrome&amp;#x27;s address bar has been way less reliable and much more frequently just gives me Google autocomplete suggestions -- even when I know that I visited a URL recently that should match!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cassepipe</author><text>It gets much better when you disable search suggestions then you only have results from your browsing history&amp;#x2F;bookmarks. And in the end if you get no results you just launch a search anyways.&lt;p&gt;There was a way to configure the relative weight of boomarks&amp;#x2F;history but I can&amp;#x27;t find it anymore.&lt;p&gt;Also worthy of notice, if you start with * in the search bar you only get bookmarks results and with ^ you get history results. Finally % is for tabs (on synced devices too) !</text></comment>
<story><title>Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/704687/8-reasons-to-ditch-chrome-and-switch-to-firefox.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cdrini</author><text>One unique Firefox feature I love that I don&amp;#x27;t see talked about often is how awesome Firefox&amp;#x27;s address bar suggestions are. I can type just a snippet of a URL or a web page title and it&amp;#x27;ll instantly show me all matching URLs I&amp;#x27;ve visited, whether on my desktop or on my phone. It&amp;#x27;s become my primary second brain for finding Google docs, or articles I&amp;#x27;ve read, or GitHub issues. It&amp;#x27;s usually only a few characters before it finds exactly what I want.&lt;p&gt;Eg I type in &amp;quot;Ed&amp;quot;? It shows the URL to my &amp;quot;editions in solr&amp;quot; GitHub issues I&amp;#x27;ve been working on recently. I vaguely recall an article I read months ago on CSS grid? I type &amp;quot;grid guide&amp;quot; and bam it&amp;#x27;s the first suggestion. The spreadsheet I made about user languages? &amp;quot;sheets lang&amp;quot;. That vague API I can never remember the parameters to? Just type &amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;query.json?&amp;quot; And I get all my previous requests as examples!&lt;p&gt;I find Chrome&amp;#x27;s address bar has been way less reliable and much more frequently just gives me Google autocomplete suggestions -- even when I know that I visited a URL recently that should match!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw10920</author><text>To add to this, my experience has been that Chrome&amp;#x27;s address bar does only matching on whole &amp;quot;fragments&amp;quot; of URLs - that is, if I visited a URL with &amp;#x2F;foobarbaz&amp;#x2F; in the name, Firefox will match that with &amp;quot;bar&amp;quot; while Chrome won&amp;#x27;t - which is pretty terrible behavior.&lt;p&gt;And then there&amp;#x27;s the bookmarks mess, lack of tree-style tabs, and crippled ad-blocker API.&lt;p&gt;As an &lt;i&gt;information management tool&lt;/i&gt;, Firefox is light-years ahead of Chrome.</text></comment>