On Saturday 07 February 2009 14:20:38 guy keren wrote: > 6. adding parametrized bookmarks and short-cutting them (copied from a > user's comment on some blog page): > > [ begin quote ] > Awesome article! Learned a few tricks here, to be sure. However, the > feature that I find most useful about Firefox is the ability to not only > use keywords to open particular bookmarks (see #5 above) but to > parametrize those keywords. This process allows you to create custom > commandline-esque macros that you can execute from your addressbar. For > instance, if I type “gi the pyramids” into my adddress bar, I’m taken to > the google image search page with a bunch of pictures of the pyramids in > egypt, as if I had entered “the pyramids” into the search box on the > site. The process is as follows: > > 1) Bookmark a site. Typically, you’ll want to search for something on > the site and bookmark that search page. > (http://images.google.com/images?q=the%20pyramids) > 2) Edit the properties of the bookmark (right-click). > 3) Put your desired keyword in the keyword field (gi). [editor: you may > need to click on 'more' to see the keyboard field] > 4) In the location field, find the keyword that you searched for and > replace it with “%s”. (http://images.google.com/images?q=%s) > 5) Save the bookmark and test it out. Type “gi hoover dam” into the > address bar. Then repeat for all of your favorite sites. w00t! > [ end quote ] >
For this, in recent versions of Firefox, you can right-click on an input box (say of a search engine), and select "Add a Keyword for this search". Regards, Shlomi Fish > > --guy > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Parody on "The Fountainhead" - http://xrl.us/bjria <mauke> I'm not interested in what you're doing; what are you trying to achieve? <PerlJam> mauke: I'm trying to achieve world peace and this regex is the last thing standing in my way! ;) _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux