Comments on: Firefox Keyword Searches http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:56:01 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David McRitchie http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-830590 David McRitchie Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:02:40 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-830590 For prefekt, ability to use keyword shortcuts is in all versions of Firefox. The ability for firefox to create a keyword from a search form was added in Firefox 3, but has been available via an extension long before. For a lot more information on keyword shortcuts see http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm Ctrl+H is the actual shortcut for History, no need to use Alt+S to refer through the menu. (Thunderbird is not part of Firefox.) Suggest you look at a table of keyboard shortcuts for Firefox. http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/keyboard.htm Firefox 2 is no longer supported (except possibly for critical security updates), would suggest you upgrade to the current version of Firefox. http://getfirefox.com and for Thunderbird http://getthunderbird.com Though if you are on 1.x better check the machine requirements for Martin, keywords are a lot more powerful in Firefox than in Opera. In Firefox they are stored in bookmarks and can be used as Opera uses a keyword (alias), or as Opera uses a search shortcut (stored elsewhere), and they can be combined with both and with JavaScript. All browsers use JavaScript but with Firefox you can include a substitution as well, as far as I know Opera doesn't have that ability, unless you have the script query you for the lookup. In fact they are a lot more powerful than the Mozilla support article describes. (see reference to kws.htm above) For prefekt, ability to use keyword shortcuts is in all versions of Firefox. The ability for firefox to create a keyword from a search form was added in Firefox 3, but has been available via an extension long before. For a lot more information on keyword shortcuts see
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm

Ctrl+H is the actual shortcut for History, no need to use Alt+S to refer through the menu. (Thunderbird is not part of Firefox.) Suggest you look at a table of keyboard shortcuts for Firefox.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/keyboard.htm

Firefox 2 is no longer supported (except possibly for critical security updates), would suggest you upgrade to the current version of Firefox.
http://getfirefox.com and for Thunderbird http://getthunderbird.com
Though if you are on 1.x better check the machine requirements

for Martin, keywords are a lot more powerful in Firefox than in Opera. In Firefox they are stored in bookmarks and can be used as Opera uses a keyword (alias), or as Opera uses a search shortcut (stored elsewhere), and they can be combined with both and with JavaScript. All browsers use JavaScript but with Firefox you can include a substitution as well, as far as I know Opera doesn’t have that ability, unless you have the script query you for the lookup. In fact they are a lot more powerful than the Mozilla support article describes. (see reference to kws.htm above)

]]> By: prefekt http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-366900 prefekt Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:02:01 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-366900 Does this work with all versions of FF? I've steadfastily abstained from upgrading to anything beyond v1.x, as i'm used to using alt+s as a 'send' command. That was fine & dandy in v1.x, however any subsequent versions (>= 2.0) have used alt+s to bring up the history menu. Or, is there anyway to bypass that? Does this work with all versions of FF?

I’ve steadfastily abstained from upgrading to anything beyond v1.x, as i’m used to using alt+s as a ’send’ command. That was fine & dandy in v1.x, however any subsequent versions (>= 2.0) have used alt+s to bring up the history menu.

Or, is there anyway to bypass that?

]]> By: Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-287144 Martin Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:44:44 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-287144 Spin I tried it with the Lifehacker search and it worked fine. Can you paste the strings you have in the bookmark ? Spin I tried it with the Lifehacker search and it worked fine. Can you paste the strings you have in the bookmark ?

]]> By: Spin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-287143 Spin Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:39:31 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-287143 Doesn't seem to work for Lifehacker. What am I doing wrong? Doesn’t seem to work for Lifehacker. What am I doing wrong?

]]> By: monkey13 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-285485 monkey13 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:20:52 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-285485 Why do we have to make it more complicated ? Just right click on the search field, choose Add a keyword for this search then follow the instruction. Official guide is here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html Why do we have to make it more complicated ?
Just right click on the search field, choose Add a keyword for this search then follow the instruction.
Official guide is here:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html

]]> By: ismaelj http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-285404 ismaelj Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:56:59 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/28/firefox-keyword-searches/#comment-285404 There's a better and easier way to do this: just right click on the search box of the site and select "Add a keyword to this search", a pop up dialog will ask you for a name ("Ghacks", p.e) and a keyword ("g", p.e). You're done! There’s a better and easier way to do this: just right click on the search box of the site and select “Add a keyword to this search”, a pop up dialog will ask you for a name (”Ghacks”, p.e) and a keyword (”g”, p.e). You’re done!

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