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Hi guys,
When i was on Tiger i used FIrefox as my main browser, but since upgrading to Leopard i havnt bothered downloading firefox and have stayed with Safari. However, the one thing i miss about firefox is being able to type a non-web address phrase/words into the URL bar and get a webpage infront of me. For example, i could type "train times" into firefox's url bar, and it would open the national rail enquires website. I think firefox uses google's I'm Feeling Lucky feature and if its confident about a result, opens the webpage, if not, opens a google search results page. how can i get safari to do this? is there a plugin i can use?
I've also read about people using the safari url bar as a google search bar, but whenever i try this i get a page telling me there is no such site, and do i want to search google, so i then have to hit enter again to get google results. bit of a pain really.
So yeah, anyone got an idea how i get this feature from firefox in safari?
Any help much appreciated,
Thanks,
Luke
When i was on Tiger i used FIrefox as my main browser, but since upgrading to Leopard i havnt bothered downloading firefox and have stayed with Safari. However, the one thing i miss about firefox is being able to type a non-web address phrase/words into the URL bar and get a webpage infront of me. For example, i could type "train times" into firefox's url bar, and it would open the national rail enquires website. I think firefox uses google's I'm Feeling Lucky feature and if its confident about a result, opens the webpage, if not, opens a google search results page. how can i get safari to do this? is there a plugin i can use?
I've also read about people using the safari url bar as a google search bar, but whenever i try this i get a page telling me there is no such site, and do i want to search google, so i then have to hit enter again to get google results. bit of a pain really.
So yeah, anyone got an idea how i get this feature from firefox in safari?
Any help much appreciated,
Thanks,
Luke