[rsoto]

One thing I really liked about Firefox was that it used to do two different types of searches. The search bar acts as it does today, but the nav bar used to redirect to the first result. This was very useful because sometimes you just know what you're looking for (as per the OP's example, "tom hanks imdb"), while other times you are going to do some digging.

Now that I'm using Kagi as my main search engine, I wish I could tell Firefox to use another search engine in my nav bar, and when I'm incognito. Mozilla used to let us modify a lot of things (via the UI, or the about:config panel), but from a few years it has been removing lots of customization options.

[tentacleuno]

> One thing I really liked about Firefox was that it used to do two different types of searches. The search bar acts as it does today, but the nav bar used to redirect to the first result.

You can actually do this yourself if you set your search engine to DuckDuckGo and prepend your search with a backslash (\, e.g. "\bats" or "\tom hanks imdb" in your case -- works great). I discovered this by accident; it's very useful.

[npilk]

Nice! I had discovered that adding a '!' does this on DDG, but didn't know about the backslash - cool tip.

I will say that it's nice to be able to add the exclamation point at the end, instead of putting it at the start like the backslash. That way, you can decide after you type your query whether you want to go directly to the first link or see the full results.