{"id":211,"date":"2008-09-03T15:48:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T20:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2008-09-03T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T20:51:24","slug":"firefox-tip-keyword-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Tip: Keyword Search"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking to a friend about Chrome concerning the way they unified the search and address bar.\u00a0 I have a variety of search engines in Firefox\/IE that I use so I frequently go to the search bar, type in what I want, choose the relavent engine, then hit bombs away.\u00a0 However, it turns out there’s a far faster and far better way of doing this in Firefox coupled with a handy shortcut key.<\/p>\n

In the first place, control+L will take you directly to the address bar in every browser EXCEPT IE.\u00a0 Couple this with smart keywords<\/a> and you have a killer way to basically move to an all keyboard solution to searching quickly and effeciently.<\/p>\n

Visit the page that has the search field that you search with. Right click on the search field. Choose Add a Keyword for this Search…<\/strong> The Add Bookmark dialog will appear. Give the bookmark a name, e.g. “IMDB Search” and create a keyword e.g. “imdb” and file the Bookmark somewhere. Firefox comes with a Quick Searches folder so you could use that. Click OK<\/p>\n

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Now enter imdb Matchstick Men<\/strong> into the Location bar and press Enter. You’re done! You can repeat these steps for any searches you use – e.g. Amazon, your corporate phonebook, your favorite bittorrent site, anything!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So now, what you can do is have google set as something like “g” and then hit control+L then type “g cats” and it would run a google search on cats.\u00a0 Run a similar setup for wikipedia, youtube, etc and you have this really cool shorthand search method!<\/p>\n

Thanks to Hammeron<\/a> for the tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was talking to a friend about Chrome concerning the way they unified the search and address bar.\u00a0 I have a variety of search engines in Firefox\/IE that I use so I frequently go to the search bar, type in what I want, choose the relavent engine, then hit bombs away.\u00a0 However, it turns out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}