• JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Reading this just made me decide to remove the Google search bar from my home screen and put the Firefox widget there instead, but I’m a little disappointed that it really just functions as another button to open Firefox instead of letting me use the bar like it visually appears it should be.

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      1 year ago

      The type of widget you’re thinking of hasn’t existed for a while. Google broke that functionality on Android a couple versions back. Some apps still make widgets that create the illusion it’s working that way, but it really isn’t.

      So no, you can’t have a functioning Firefox search bar on the home screen.

      But you can make a widget that’s basically a shortcut to the internal searchbar. One tap will:

      Open the browser, create a new tab, place the cursor in the search bar, and open the keyboard.

      It serves the same function: one tap then you can start typing your query and hit enter. It just doesn’t do that on the homescreen.