Firefox Address Bar Tricks

Published: August 26, 2021

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Ref: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox

Firefox provides easy way for searching the bookmarking, history or open tabs using the address bar.

For searching bookmarks only

Press Cmd/Ctrl + L
Press * the search would come only for bookmarks.

Similarly we can search for history, open tags or title using special character mentioned below

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Add ^ to show only matches in your browsing history.
Add * to show only matches in your bookmarks.
Add + to show only matches in bookmarks you've tagged.
Add % to show only matches in your currently open tabs.
Add # to show only matches where every search term is part of the title or part of a tag.
Add $ to show only matches where every search term is part of the web address (URL). The text "https://" or "http://" in the URL is ignored but not "file:///".
Add ? to show only search suggestions. 

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
It will help me to improve/learn.