Firefox keywords (more)
Andy mentioned how useful Firefox keywords are for Trac. Remember a quick way to create your own shortcuts is to right-click on any search form and click on “Add a keyword for this search…” Or even quicker, download this handy set that I adapted from Lifehacker’s. Here’s how to install it:
- Save the link to your desktop
- In Firefox, from the Bookmarks menu, choose “Organize Bookmarks.”
- From the Bookmarks Manager File menu, choose Import. Choose “Import Bookmarks from File.” Browse to and open the file you just saved.
Continue reading to see the list of searches.
- Acronym Finder Quick Search
- Type "acronym <acronym>" to look up what an acronym stands for in Acronym Finder. For example, "acronym WTF."
- Allmusic.com artist search
- Type "alm <artist>" to look up an artist on Allmusic.com
- Amazon Quick Search
- Type "amaz <product name>" to look up an item on Amazon.
- Amazon UK Quick Search
- Type "amazuk <product name>" to look up an item on Amazon UK.
- Dictionary.com Quicksearch
- Type "dic <word>" in the addressbar to perform a dictionary look-up.
- Answers.com Quicksearch
- Type "ans <word>" in the addressbar to perform an answers.com look-up.
- Ebay Quick Search
- Type "ebay <item>" to find something up for auction at Ebay.
- Flickr Quick Search
- Type "flic <search term>" to search all the tags, titles and descriptions of images at photo-sharing site Flickr.
- Froogle Quick Search
- Type "froogle <product name>" to look up a product on shopping search engine Froogle.
- Google Maps Quick Search
- Type "gmap <address>" to get a Google map of a street address or location.
- Google Image Quick Search
- Type "gimg <search term>" to find images that match using Google Image Search.
- I’m Feeling Lucky Quicksearch
- Type "goto <term>" in the addressbar to visit Google’s top listing for that term
- Lifehacker Google Search
- Type "lh <search term>" to search Lifehacker for information.
- Technorati Quick Search
- Type "technorati <search term>" to see what weblogs are posting about a topic.
- Thesaurus Quick Search
- Type "thes <word>" to find words with similar meanings in a thesaurus.
- Urban Dictionary Quick Search
- Type "ud <expression>" to look up a slang expression in Urban Dictionary.
- Wikipedia Quick Search
- Type "wik <person|place|thing>" to look it up in collaboratively-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia.
- Yahoo! Creative Commons Quick Search
- Type "cc <word>" to find Creative Commons-licensed items available for reuse with Yahoo!’s CC search.
Comments
Guys, seriously. Save yourself a hell of a lot of effort, and take a look at yubnub - http://yubnub.org.
[I said something similar on Andy's post, but the comment never turned up]
Posted by: Dan | January 24, 2008 02:11 PM
Yubnub reminds me of DQSD, which I see it also integrates with. I used to be addicted to DQSD, but since WinXP Service Pack 2 it became a real hassle (the dreaded yellow warning message), and that gradually ruined it for me.
Still, of the 100s of commands in DQSD (which seems to be Yubnub's main attraction too), I never used more than a core of 10 or so, and Firefox keywords have pretty much replaced those. Also one less input box on the screen.
Posted by: Francois Jordaan | January 24, 2008 02:28 PM