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A little productivity tip for Firefox users—smart keywords
Posted by Shawn Callahan - 14/11/08
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Just noticed this feature in Firefox this morning which is a real time saver. I'm often looking around for books and I have a couple of favourite websites (Amazon, Readings). In Firefox you can assign a search box on say your Amazon website to a keyword. Then whenever you want to make a search you just type that keyword followed by your search string into the place where you would normally type a web address and hit return. And viola, the search results appear.
Here is the link to the Firefox help page that describes how to do it.







Comments
Great tip! And that Viola, she's some smart woman...
Posted by: Johnnie Moore at November 15, 2008 11:57 PM
I didn't know about that function - clever!
I have recently started to use Ubiquity myself
(http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity) which brings similar (but wider) functionality to Firefox, but it's still in it's early stages. Promising, though.
Posted by: Romi Rancken at November 17, 2008 5:32 PM
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