Forum Discussion
Add a calculator in the address bar
In Chrome, I really like the fact that the address bar was also a calculator (among others things). I simply had to press F4 (to enter the address bar) and enter a calculation and then the result is displayed in the suggestion.
Could you please add this feature?
Well I tried again just now and it's working. Sorry for that.
But it's not working in "InPrivate" mode. Could you fix that?
- Agreed, inPrivate or not, the browser should send the queries to the search engine and receive the result which in your case is a math calculation. 👍
- There is a calculator app in your OS. And you should or may, also, have a Calculator key on your keyboard that will open it.
Cheers,
Drew
Sent from Windows Phone- Yes, you're right, I could use my OS calculator but it is faster to use the Edge calculator from the address bar. The only problem is that it isn't available on InPrivate mode.
- I dug up a little more and apparently few years ago you could actually get autocomplete/text prediction in Incognito mode of Google Chrome (InPrivate mode equivalent) but Google decided to remove that for whatever reason!
I hope Microsoft fixes their mess and allow text predictions/suggestions based on the keywords we type in the InPrivate browsing mode. doing that also means you'll get calculation results off your address bar.
- Calculator also works in Windows Defender Application Guard mode which is even more secure and isolated than the InPrivate mode. so now i'm sure it's definitely a bug that needs a fix.
- Late to the party I am!
You can add it easily. Go to EDGE settings. Look for
"Privacy, search, and services / Address bar and search"
- Use google as your base default search engine.
- Now type in addressbar for your calc function. - It already does this. Just hit F4 or click in the address bar and type in your calculation. It shows the answer in the suggestion below. No need to activate it or install anything else, it's just there (for me, at least)
