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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 14:23:13 JST mhoye

   If you're switching to Firefox this week, I collected a list of the team's favourite hidden features back when I worked there:

   https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/10/25/navigational-instruments/

   • Charles Muller and HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
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     Stacey Campbell (stacey_campbell@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 14:27:13 JST Stacey Campbell

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     @mhoye Awesome, thanks! (I just switched today.)

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     MarkusL (markusl@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 14:27:17 JST MarkusL

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     @mhoye I've used #Firefox as my main browser for decades, and I didn't know most of this stuff. Thanks!

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     liam (liam@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 14:27:28 JST liam

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     @mhoye Great post! I had no idea about those search shortcuts and I've been using Firefox for years. % to search open tabs is a gamechanger.

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     mish (mish@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:32:25 JST mish

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     @mhoye I'd like to add that if you use DuckDuckGo as your default Firefox search provider you can extremely quickly search other search engines from the Quantumbar/omnibar/omnibox using bang commands. I use this feature constantly to search directly on sites like YouTube (!yt), AlternativeTo (!alt), and Amazon (!a). Other search engines may also have this feature.

     https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:34:56 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • mish

     @mish

     So, basically, that is the "site:" command from Google?

     @mhoye

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:54:11 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • mish

     @mish

     Thanks.
     Apart from less characters, what fir, why not just DDG?

     @mhoye

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     mish (mish@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:54:12 JST mish

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol @mhoye no. It doesn't limit the search to a location. It runs the search on the bang service.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:02:52 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @mish

     Kind of you.
     It does sound convenient. However, you seem to be trading off anonymity for convenience if I understand the disclaimer correctly.

     @mhoye

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     mish (mish@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:02:54 JST mish

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol @mhoye I just find it convenient and wanted to share. Ctrl+L to get to the quantumbar and bang commands I've memorized for sites I use often.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:07:16 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • mish

     @mish

     Thanks anyway, not for me then, alas, too bad.

     @mhoye

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     mish (mish@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:07:17 JST mish

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol @mhoye yes most certainly it doesn't maintain DuckDuckGos anonymity.

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     ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him) (chiraag@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:12:57 JST ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
     • mish

     @HistoPol @mish @mhoye I mostly use it when I know which site I'm going to anyway (so there is no practical loss of privacy). I also automatically delete cookies, use uBO on strict mode, still use uMatrix, enabled RFP, and do all of this through a VPN anyway. Not saying it's foolproof, but loads better than doing nothing at all.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:12:57 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @chiraag
     Yep. Damage control.

     @mish @mhoye