Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Firefox Keywords=Chrome Search Engines...

This is for keyboard friendly users. Recently i switched to google chrome from the firefox because of Chrome’s advantage over firefox. I am surprised when i didn’t find some thing like ‘keywords’ in firefox. By googleing i found that ‘Search engines’ in chrome is similar to ‘Keywords’ in firefox.



Keywords

* Bookmark the page you wont to use frequently.

* Go to ‘property’ by right clicking the new bookmark, add the keyword.

* You can now refer the page by just typing the keyword in address bar.

Search engines

* Right click in address bar

* Add search engines. The name,keyword and url are similar as firefox.



Example

* you may add keyword ‘w’ for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page to access it by just typing ‘w’ in address bar.

* It can also take search parameter. Lets say you have searched ‘yahoo’ in wikipedia, which will result in the url ‘http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo’. This can be parametrized while creating bookmark by adding ‘http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s’ in URL.

* Now to search any thing in wikipedia just type ‘w searchstring’. i.e. w Microsoft.

Firefox shortcuts

Happy Hacking,
Vijaysinh Parmar

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