[PLUG] Firefox Quick searches

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

I was just setting some of these up for someone and it occurred to me 
that this is a lessor known but really cool feature of Firefox that some 
on the list might have missed.

In Firefox, if you create a bookmark with a "keyword" you can then type 
that keyword into the address bar and go to that bookmark.  Also, if you 
put %s into the bookmark's URL, then any string typed after the keyword 
is inserted into the URL.

So, create this bookmark:

Name:	Froogle Search
Loca..:	http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%s&lmode=online&scoring=p
Tags:	
Keywrd:	froogle
Desc:	Type "froogle <search term>" in the addressbar to perform a 
Froogle search


I have about 50 of these, for things like package searches for Debian, 
Ubuntu, Fedora; MS Technet, Google Linux, BSD, etc.; Bug Me Not; IMDB; 
CPAN, PerlDoc; UPS, FedEx; etc...

I save all mine in my "Quick Search JP" folder, but see also the 
existing "Quick Search" bookmark folder.

Enjoy,
JP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;%s
http://packages.debian.org/%s
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s;s=all
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=%s&mode=all
http://perldoc.perl.org/search.html?q=%s
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