1959507 - Create article about address bar calculator

Status: NEW

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Content, task)

Description

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Steps to reproduce:

The built-in calculator (browser.urlbar.suggest.calculator) is finally being rolled out to everyone.

Please create an article describing the supported operations.

You may want to mention how search suggestions from the user's default search engine can affect this feature, since people may mix up calculations coming from the search engine with calculations performed by the address bar itself.

Comment 1

[Alice Wyman]

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/urlbar/preferences.html#experimental
browser.urlbar.suggest.calculator (boolean, default: false)
Whether results will include a calculator.

Bug 1948094 - Enable calculator by default
Pascal Chevrel:pascalc
Comment 9 • 2025-03-12 04:55 EDT • Edited
Note added to our 137 beta notes. I am keeping the release note flag open until we ship it to the release channel, thanks.
2025-03-17 Update: typo fix, added screenshot, marked as a progressive rollout

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0/releasenotes/
(quote)
You can now use the Firefox address bar as a calculator. Simply type an arithmetic expression and view the result in the address bar drop-down. Clicking on this result will copy it to your clipboard.
Screenshot of the calculator feature in the URL bar
This feature is part of a progressive roll out.