More Firefox keyword fun Oct10 '05
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# (2 of 7): Matthom
1 day, 23 hours after the fact. (Wed 12 Oct 2005, 8:01 AM CST)
Yeah, great point. I thought of this as well. For example, let's say on a personal site I am developing - I have a bunch of "admin" links, which are straight-forward text links. Instead of using a URL in the href attribute, I could just use the keyword that I already created for that URL.
Using the Netflix example - instead of linking directly to Fever Pitch:
<a href="http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=70023958">
I could, instead, link to my personalized keyword:
<a href="netflix fever pitch">
But, obviously that would only work in Firefox.
# (3 of 7): Becky » netflixfan.blogspot.com
3 days after the fact. (Thu 13 Oct 2005, 9:26 AM CST)
One more great reason to use Firefox! Thanks.
# (4 of 7): Sue
1 week, 1 day after the fact. (Tue 18 Oct 2005, 9:28 AM CST)
Actually, I think you can save a step here. In Firefox, if the URL is one word - epicurious, wikipedia, netflix, google, froogle - you don't need to set up the keyword at all. Just try wikipedia hysteria in the Location bar and hit return. Magic!
# (5 of 7): Matthom
1 week, 1 day after the fact. (Tue 18 Oct 2005, 9:51 AM CST)
Sue, thanks for your feedback. However, I'm not sure I follow what you mean. Isn't the URL always one word? The wikipedia hysteria example works, but I'm not sure it works for any text box. But what do I know? This is all new to me.
# (6 of 7): Roklobsta
2 weeks, 2 days after the fact. (Thu 27 Oct 2005, 5:48 AM CST)
very cool! i love firefox and i love netflix. oh the joy of having netflix in my search bar! bliss!
# (7 of 7): Alex
3 years after the fact. (Sat 08 Nov 2008, 4:36 AM CST)
well andy... you can. As long as you are prepared/able to install the delicious add-on to "any" browser you might be on.
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I always knew you could use keywords, instead of bookmark icons, in Firefox - but I didn’t know you can also apply a keyword directly to a search - any search on any web site. That is, any web site that has a search text box.
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# (1 of 7): Andy Atkinson » andyatkinson.net
1 day, 15 hours after the fact. (Wed 12 Oct 2005, 12:13 AM CST)
Great tip. I use the built-in "dict" all the time to search dictionary.com, I'll definitely have to add my own. Now someone needs to come up with a way to store this on a web page (like the google personalized search page) so that you can execute those queries from "any" browser you might be on. You could the search would be saved in your search history for later as well.