Arc's command bar for Zen browser

[danielbolivar]

I would love to see Zens command bar implemented in Zen browser. Maybe a rough first implementation could be just displaying the bar for normal internet queries. Something like just a hotkey that trigger the floating url bar

[giuli635]

You can trigger the bar using Ctrl+L

[danielbolivar]

Yeah but it also triggers when you tap the urlbar. The point is it just happens when you click the shortcut. This is because it could be sometimes annoying when you are not expecting it to pop

[giuli635]

Ooooh, yes, I see what you mean. Yes it's a bit annoying because you have to move the mouse from the position where the url bar was.

[Tealk]

This only works to a limited extent for me, first the url is highlighted in the address bar and then when I start typing the floating window appears.

[Kevoin]

It would be nice to be able to perform site search. On arc you can open the command bar, type "y" and the tab to go directly to youtube search. This works for multiple websites, not just youtube, and is such a nice workflow improvement and keeps you from getting distracted😉

[elianiva]

AFAIK you can already do this kind of shortcut, you just need to add the trigger in the settings

the difference is it's in the url bar instead of the command bar

[shaqaruden]

I would like to see the ability to switch tabs from the address bar to be improved. It can take too many keyboard inputs after after typing in my "query" to be able to switch tabs. For example

If I type "Youtube" and I have a single opened tab for YouTube I should be able to Press the up arrow or down arrow to highlight to switch to that tab. I just tried this now and I either have to down arrow through 15+ results or arrow up through the "This time, search with" section before I can get to the option to switch to that tab

[Dedsecproject]

I'm looking for the ability to trigger the features that Zen browser has through the command bar instead of searching through the settings to find the shortcut needed for that feature to be triggered. I Would love to see that you can type in on the command bar what you want. For example, you type in "split" and the option shows up displaying which shortcut is linked to said feature.

[baggiponte]

I absolutely need this feature 🤣 That's my favorite thing about arc right after the sidebar tabs.

[LaserKaspar]

Does this feature exist in zen?

[Dedsecproject]

not at the moment

[adminy]

would be pretty nice to see this feature, because its not obvious what the shortcuts are and this could be a very good way to learn them.

[aSapien]

Absolutely need this feature. I am often using Arc's "Move to workspace" commands and the like

[md-tanveer]

Hope to see the commend bar in the future updates

[Woofer21]

Bumping this thread, would love to be able to do all my searches without having to open a "new tab" window every time, much cleaner to have an option to have it like arcs.

[svliantiss]

How can you change the CMD + L to CMD + T, that should/would also fix opening a new tab before entering the url?

[vraravam]

imo, any application (in general) that needs this kind of capability, will need to revamp (not commenting whether its a major or a minor change) to refactor all menu items and context menu items to be bound/tied to actions, and then the actions themselves carry out the actual intended work. This allows for key bindings to be applied/associated to these actions.
I don't think FF exposes this abstract notion of an action except for a few capabilities. Till such time that FF does this refactoring, I don't think Zen can get such a capability. I might be totally wrong, would love to be corrected.