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On Firefox you can disable this via an about:config setting (set keyword.enabled to false).

ahh cool.. but a binary toggle is a bit to coarse.

it would be nice if the input string contains a whitespace, it will perform the search engine query for you automatically, or allow some custom regex expression to determine whether to query search engine.

Or just have two text inputs[1]: one for url and one for search, rather than trying to overload two functions into one text input and trying to guess what the user wants.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-search-bar-firefox-...

oooo didn't know that setting was available!

In your search settings you can add keywords. So if you set ? as the keyword for google you can type '? foobar' into the address bar to google for foobar.

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