Comments on: Firefox Keyword Searches

By: David McRitchie

David McRitchie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:02:40 +0000

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

prefekt — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:02:01 +0000

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

Martin — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:44:44 +0000

Spin I tried it with the Lifehacker search and it worked fine. Can you paste the strings you have in the bookmark ?

By: Spin

Spin — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:39:31 +0000

Doesn’t seem to work for Lifehacker. What am I doing wrong?

By: monkey13

monkey13 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:20:52 +0000

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

ismaelj — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:56:59 +0000

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!