This is so brilliant that I'm going to ignore the risk of ridicule and repeat it, just in case someone else doesn't know it....
→ Open your bookmarks (in sidebar is good, CTRL&B)
→ Right click on a brilliant bookmark
→ Select properties
→ In the keyword field, type "brilliant", then OK.
→ Close bookmar sidebar (CTRL&B again)
→ Go to navigation toolbar and type "brilliant" into the address bar → press Enter
→ Say "Brilliant!" and go add keywords to all the rest of your most-used bookmarks :)
Firefox is just so *stacked* with brilliant stuff, that you sometimes just overlook the really great stuff in favour of add-ons, extras and doodads :)
If you use Google, Internet Movie Database, or even your corporate phone book to find things. Wouldn't it be handy if you could just open your browser and use a short cut to search? Try this:
* Go to the page that has the search box on it, right click in the search box and choose "Add a Keyword for this Search..."
* In the "Add Bookmark" dialog that appears enter a name and a short "keyword" and save the Bookmark...
So, for Merriam-Webseter Online (m-w.com[m-w.com]) you'd right click in the search box, enter a keyword you'll remember like mw and save the bookmark.
Now you can type "mw frogs" in the URL field of your browser and you'll be taken to the Merriam-Webster site to see the results of your search. You won't want to live with out it!
I know that a lot of keywords are already "in Firefox" - or is it a default in Google? Whatever, I just never made that leap into realising that I could enter my own. *weeps*
Lerryn, you now have your very own keyword in my bookmarks. *g*
I didn't know that, and I always welcome all these hints, no matter how simple or basic others thing they are!
:-)
CastorQuinn
Mar 31, 2007 3:07pm
Yeah, I didn't know about this until I asked in this group about extesions or options that let me configure keywords, and was told Firefox already gave me that.
I find it great for conserving screen space. I can turn off the Bookmarks Toolbar, then load it with pages I look at often, give each a keyword, and I effectively have command prompt aliases for my freq visit pages. 'isp' takes me to my ISP page, 'email' to my email server, 'kblog' to my friend's blog. It's fantastic.
I did know about this. I can't remember how I figured it out, but it's a keyword thing. In any case, I use delicious so it's not that helpful for me now. Before I used delicious though, I used it all the time. I used things like gmail, extensions (for the main extension page), and other sites I frequented. It's a very useful tip. :)
CH
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