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isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/27/type-less-to-access-websites-faster/</guid> <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m using the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox to access websites with the click &#8211; or two &#8211; of the mouse button. Space is limited there however and I&#8217;m using another way to access websites pretty fast without having to enter the full url in the address bar. The feature that I&#8217;m using is called keyword [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m using the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox to access websites with the click &#8211; or two &#8211; of the mouse button. Space is limited there however and  I&#8217;m using another way to access websites pretty fast without having to enter the full url in the address bar. The feature that I&#8217;m using is called keyword in Firefox and nickname in Opera; Don&#8217;t think Internet Explorer is offering that feature yet.</p><p>This obviously only works if you have added the website to the bookmarks in either Firefox or Opera. When doing so you can add a keyword or nickname for that url which in turn makes it possible to access the website by typing in that keyword in the address bar.</p><p>Instead of accessing the website http://www.windows7news.com/ I simply type w7 and hit enter. The website loads just fine. Now, I do not recommend to add keywords for every bookmark that you have. This would surely lead to problems remembering the keywords for those urls unless you have a photographic memory.</p><p><span
id="more-3637"></span>I have about ten keywords for domains that I access regularly to speed up access. I do not add keywords for very short urls like cnn.com for instance but everything with 5+ chars makes sense. (it&#8217;s enough to enter cnn for cnn to enter the website in Firefox because Firefox will automatically load the first website in the Google results if no matching keyword was found.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/27/type-less-to-access-websites-faster/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>11</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
