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I keep accidentally tapping it when trying to tap at the end of the address to edit it. Currently this is my biggest struggle with Firefox.

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[–] comradegreetingcard@lemmy.ml 101 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was just having this issue.

Go to settings> search> at the bottom should be "address bar preference" where you'll find the "show voice search" toggle.

[–] tobbue@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

That was it, thank you so much!

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I recommend Mull, btw Google gboard is reading everything you type, I recommend Futo Keyboard, Heliboard or Florisboard

[–] Awa15@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago

Futo keyboard is nice, thanks for the recommendation!

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

I use Florisboard myself, for its action bar and the priceless clipboard menu (also very secure as it is not shared with the system clipboard).

But Heliboard and Futo Keyboard have autocorrect, and Futo keyboard also voice input, really cool.

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just started using FUTO, text to speech is a bit slower than g board but works about as well.

Swipe and word prediction seems to work just about the same as Gboard

I've configured mine to look so similar it looks almost the same (amoled dark theme, number row, symbol hints, reduce press delay to 150ms)

Biggest thing I miss is gif search, I switch to gboard for that then switch back.

[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About as well? Futo is running locally, i.e. on your smartphone, as opposed to getting uploaded to Google and then processed there.

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Ya, on my pixel 8 pro, futo Takes just slightly longer to process Compared to Google, but the accuracy at the end seems to be the same. The difference in speed is really not very significant But it is noticeable.

[–] octochamp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Heliboard with FUTO voice is the one

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You dont need Futo voice, Futo keyboard has a worse UI but allows to import the same models (the biggest one is the only one that has good results) externally.

https://keyboard.futo.org/voice-input-models

[–] octochamp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure but if you don't want a worse UI then you can use these models with Heliboard, best of both worlds

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Is the UI that different?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use HeliBoard with Sayboard, don't want to support a company like FUTO that isn't properly FOSS

[–] octochamp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

very fair tbh

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly it's source available, and you can make a fork of it as long as it's non-commercial and doesn't use the futo name.

I'm fine with it, the liscence, while unusual, seems perfectly fine to me

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It depends. For example on an OS without GSF and without giving GBoard internet connection access it should be fine

Gboard settings -> voice typing should turn it off for you

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird, mine doesn't have this

[–] maeries@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

It depends on the keyboard I guess

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Check in the settings, it's there.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a keyboard option. You can use something like Heliboard and it's optional there.

[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Heliboard is top, it has everything, you can even add gestures. And it's FOSS without google spying.

[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

If I'm not wrong, Fennec (Firefox android fork) doesn't have that.