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Search Goes to Your Default Engine

Navigation v1.3.3

This one's about staying out of your way. Searching from the new-tab box or the side-panel command search now sends you to the default search engine you've already chosen in your browser, rather than picking one for you. And keyboard hint mode learned some manners: it stays quiet while a text field is focused, so typing into a site's own search box — Instagram DMs were the case someone reported — won't flash hint badges at you mid-keystroke. Two small changes that each remove a daily papercut.

  • Web search from the new-tab search box and the side-panel command search now uses whatever default search engine you've set in your browser — DuckDuckGo, Bing, Google, or anything else
  • Keyboard hint badges no longer pop up while you're typing in a page's own search box, so sites that auto-focus their search field stay out of your way

Search Uses Your Default Engine

Type a query into the new-tab page search box, or into the side-panel command search, and Nav now hands it to the default search engine you’ve set in your browser. If you’ve made DuckDuckGo, Bing, or anything else your default, that’s where your search goes. Nav respects the choice you already made instead of sending you somewhere you didn’t pick.

Hints Stay Quiet While You Type

Some sites focus their own search box for you the moment a page loads. On those pages, pressing Shift to capitalize the first letter could blur the field and surface keyboard hint badges instead — Instagram DMs were the reported case. Now hints never activate while a text field is focused, so typing into a site’s search box stays typing.