Firefox is pissing me off. What should I replace it with?

You need Google Ultron.

TOR

I switched to Waterfox a long time ago, and I'm quite happy with it. All your usual Firefox plugins are compatible 100% as well. Take a look at the fork, it should live up to what you're after.

Personally, I use Firefox and just install shitloads of addons. :-D

Chrome is reliable and even has lots of addons but just isn't nearly as customizable in my experience. As for Microsoft... do Idiot Explorer/Edge even really count as browsers? And I don't trust the megacorps either... (45% because I work for one, 25% privacy advocate, 20% paranoia, and 10% from playing Shadowrun Returns).

Anyway, have FF UI changes pissed me off a time or two? Sure. But haven't found anything else that gives me the same degree of customization + is open source + not tracking + not shit. FWIW, I tried the setting you mentioned an it seemed to work for me... but I'm also on Linux Mint and also haven't updated FF a few weeks (currently on 50.1.0). If you don't care about security and you're on windows, you could get the portable apps version for the last one where it worked, turn off auto-updates, and run that for awhile.

I use Brave

Chromium?

You can do what you are looking for by using "@ loot" or "loot @".

To search only history, use "loot ^ @".

But I agree with you that the setting you are trying to use should work as well.

There are other special characters for finding other stuff as well, like "+" for finding pages you tagged and "*" for bookmarks, etc.

https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Basic-Browsing/Awesome-Bar-Search-your-Firefox-bookmarks-history-and-tabs-from/ta-p/1485

lynx

I moved from Firefox to Vivaldi. It's not perfect but I'm liking it so far.

If you want a very advanced browser, try Vivaldi.
Just turn off the colorizing of tabs if it is still set as default, because it looks really crazy.

I would love to use opera, I used to have it as my primary. Then some day stopped working with gmail and I switched to firefox :(

Sadly, all but Firefox is even worse shit. :(

I gave up and I'm using Chrome despite all my reservations similar to yours - since FF was starting to look exactly the same a while ago (which I didn't like), I just switched to original from a copy-cat...

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

Try Vivaldi browser. Has a lot of options for customization and is very stable.
I switched to it from Firefox on one of my computers and so far I'm pretty satisfied with what it has to offer.

Well, there are 4-5 major browser engines:

• Blink (Chromium, Chrome, Vivaldi, Steam, Origin, Skype (Linux), Visual Studio Code (Linux), Spotify...),
• Gecko (Firefox, Thunderbird, Gadu-Gadu, Instabird, SongBird, ...),
• Trident (IE, Edge, Skype, possibly VSC (Windows), ...),
• Webkit and/or KHTML (Konqueror, ...)

Engine defines how browser displays webpage contents/how fast it works. If you want to stick with the Firefox renders/supports webpages but don't like the way user interface works, you can either use some extensions to fix it or switch to other Gecko based browser. For list of browsers scroll down this page and use [show] by Desktop - it covers most of browsers, gives info about them.

I myself use Opera, Firefox and VIvaldi for website browsing, first two with lots of extensions/add-ons so they work the way I like - you can use add-on to replace Firefox address/search bar). Sometimes I use IE or Edge because I either don't have a choice (I can't install new browser or webpage works only in those). For "security/privacy" I use either Tor Bundle (Firefox modification + some Tor tools) or Opera's VPN. I mean if I don't want to play with firewall :)

i use chrome with swisscows.ch

Chrome

Try Vivaldi. It's Chrome based, but being built with customization in mind.

Why would Edge EVER be an option? I've been considering moving into Chrome more(because they already own my soul and I can't escape), but there is no reason to use Edge except the stupid search bar on the Windows OS defaults to that and I haven't figured out how to change it yet(default browser means default browser, dangit)

There's probably some super open sourcey DIY browser you can ASSUME CONTROL over(yes, just like Harbinger himself), but you also probably have to compile it and do a bunch of command line stuff. I once tried to compile a program, definitely was a massive mistake. Keep your Linux machines away from me, I might set them on fire with my presence.

I couldn't love the browsers using Chromium engine. I switched Vivaldi for a while but it's not the same taste as Firefox (I'm using Firefox from the very beginning, i couldn't simply change it), so eventually i switched back. I love Gecko engine (especially on Linux) just like you said i've wasting so much time to make Firefox what it used to be. I don't think there are really valid options around but you can try Pale Moon, at least it looks like Firefox 3 era, and it's lightweight compared to Firefox today because they removed some features -not so important features- but it's not up-to-date at some points, still the best option i think.

Well Pale Moon was recommended already so won't bother saying much beyond that yes it is by and large Firefox without all the forced changes it has gone through the years but it is also different enough that you may feel like learning to use a new browser depending on you set things up compares to the default in it. Might have gotten better since I last tested it since it has been quite a while though.

After using it for a while myself I got too lazy to go around tweaking things to be the way I want, finding extensions and so on so I just stopped updating browser. Waited too long even it has been what like two dozen major versions, maybe more, since Firefox started to introduce more and more annoying things? Probably will need to move on at some point but for the time being it works perfectly well.

Lynx FTW!