Auto Redirect

This Firefox add-on aims to make browsing faster by redirecting you to the first Google search result if there is a very high probability of it being the "correct" result. Otherwise it just loads the normal search result page.

The URL loaded is of the form https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q={searchTerms}.

The add-on also adds a keyword, go, which allows you to type go wikipedia and get forwarded to Wikipedia immediately.

Building the add-on

To build the add-on locally, run

make build

You need to have web-ext installed.

This will create a zip archive in the web-ext-artifacts/ directory, which you can then install. See this page on the Mozilla documentation for more information.

Pro tip

If you set it to the default search engine, you will not have to type any keyword at all.

Credits

This is a fork of https://github.com/mattjudge/browse-by-name-search, with the addition of fixing mattjudge/browse-by-name-search#1 with the provided URL for making search suggestions work again.

All credits go to the original author.