{"id":6510,"date":"2011-05-09T23:55:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T23:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.406"},"modified":"2024-04-25T19:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:04:38","slug":"quickly-switch-searches-with-awesomebar-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2011\/05\/quickly-switch-searches-with-awesomebar-hd\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickly switch searches with AwesomeBar HD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please download Firefox 4<\/a> to watch the WebM video.<\/p>\n

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AwesomeBar HD<\/a> provides categories in the location bar to help me find exactly what I want. Instead of having to first doing a generic web search and looking through the results, I can jump straight to tweets about beltzner. If I now wanted to check up on his work background, I can easily switch within the “people” category to LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

This concept of using the same search query with a different web search isn’t new. Going to Google, we can see this similar functionality promoted along the left. And Bing has the same thing along the top.<\/p>\n

But having this as part of Firefox allows you to pick the provider that you<\/u> want. So if you prefer Flickr for pictures over the ones linked from the generic web search, you can activate it directly from the location bar.<\/p>\n

Additionally, having this integrated with the browser can lead to a better user experience. If you’ve watched very carefully, you might have noticed that switching search results immediately loads the pages as Firefox has pre-fetched the results.<\/p>\n

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Easy switching of providers<\/p><\/div>\n

Try out AwesomeBar HD<\/b><\/a> on Firefox 4<\/a>! You don’t even need to restart Firefox to begin playing around. The Prospector team is very interested in hearing back from you, so please install it for a bit, and let us know what you think<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As usual, you can check out the recent fixes<\/a> and submit issues or suggestions<\/a> if you have any!<\/p>\n

– Ed Lee<\/a> on behalf of the Prospector team<\/i>
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