Making Firefox’s Location Bar More Useful


More Handy Location Bar Shortcuts

I went to town when I started creating these shortcuts. I used only one of the shortcuts from the Lifehacker article cause I only have a need for one (ping.)

Here are the other's I added.

Name: Whois (shortcut: whois)
Location: http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=%s
Keyword: whois
Description: Network Solutions Whois Lookup Shortcut

Name: Ping (shortcut: ping)
Location: http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=ping&host=%s
Keyword: ping
Description: Network tools ping shortcut

Name: Google Maps (shortcut: map)
Location: http://maps.google.com/maps?complete=1&hl=en&q=%s&ie=UTF-8
Keyword: map
Description: Google maps lookup shortcut

Name: Flickr Search by Interestingness (shortcut: flickr)
Location: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%s&ss=2&s=int
Keyword: flickr
Description: Flickr search ordered by interestingness

Then I wanted to create one for my own website's search. So I did a quick search using my built in search tool and grabbed the query.
http://blog.ninedays.org/index.php?s=search%20query I then replaced 'search%20query' with %s like the above examples, which will put the text I type after the shortcut as the search query.

Name: Ping Ninedays Blog Search (shortcut: ninedays)
Location: http://blog.ninedays.org/index.php?s=%s
Keyword: ninedays
Description: Ninedays Blog Search Shortcut

I spend a lot of time referencing the posts I write. Truth be told that's why I write these posts, my blog is more of a reference diary for myself than a knowledge sharing expedition for the rest of y'all.

What shortcuts have you created? Leave a comment if you've come up with anything cool!

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2 months ago

This is why I blog: I just started a new job today and needed to fix the default Firefox search and add back in all my keywords. Since these are not things I do often I had to look it up in the search here to find where I wrote about it last time.

Blogging is very handy when you're secretly doing it for your own reference library!