search local drive before the internet
While I enjoy the capability of selecting a search engine as I see fit, I would prefer that my local drives take precedence. Is there an easy way to enable this for everyday casual use? In other words, can I specify "search local drives first, followed by the web i.e. casting a wider net to search on the world wide web, and an arbitrary third placeholder such as foreign sources (example only) or foreign news items (again, fictitious example)
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How do you currently search for files on your computer? Maybe an add-on can tap into that local capability using a native application, but Firefox definitely does not have a built-in feature to do it.
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Firefox doesn't have access to the Windows system search index, so I think you would need to use Windows File Explorer to do the local search.
Thank you, but I am not on a Windows machine so I never bother with the their search results. Forget about windows for a moment. I have the files on my local drive, but I want to be sure that I am missing a few.more, say pdf files. I would like the search engine to list the files from the local drive first, then the online results second.
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How do you currently search for files on your computer? Maybe an add-on can tap into that local capability using a native application, but Firefox definitely does not have a built-in feature to do it.
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