Omnibar search engine shortcuts (feature request)
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Description
It would be convenient to access a search engine using its shortcut. For example, if Wikipedia is added as a search engine with shortcut wp, then typing wp only in the omnibar redirects to en.wikipedia.org.
This is similar to Firefox bookmarks shortcuts, but I use chromium based browsers.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the omnibar's existing search-engine handling and compare the requested behavior with Firefox bookmark shortcuts. Determine how a shortcut-only query should resolve to its configured search engine and define the expected behavior for matching and non-matching shortcuts. Done means a configured shortcut redirects to the corresponding search engine.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100