Crossposted from a community manager’s post: https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1hwd6u7/join/_mozilla/_to/_test/_the/_new/_firefox/_address/_bar/

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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 days ago

    Need to test it, but sounds weird.

    What happens if you open many results with middle click? Or if you use duckduck go bangs? (If you don’t know what they are, check then out. That alone makes it my default search engine)

      • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 day ago

        True, I remember using it in the past. But duck duck go works in every installation of every browser, while keeping in sync home (multiple devices, multiple browsers)/work(no Firefox allowed :()/phone it’s a pain.

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      1·
      22 hours ago

      open many results with middle click?

      As in, they open in a background tab? I don’t believe the url bar persists the search terms when you go to a results page, just on the results page itself

      Or if you use DuckDuckGo bangs?

      That one I’m not sure about. If it keeps the text across an automated redirect it would just be a matter of modifying the bang again. You’d get redirected through DuckDuckGo again, but same end result.

      Unless they’re programming the bar to pull the text directly from the results page DOM in which case the bang would likely be not be a part of the search terms in the address bar once you got to the results page.