Firefox smart keywords
A really neat feature, probably unknown to many Firefox users: You can create “smart keywords”. For example, I have defined a smart keyword for a Wikipedia search, so now, when I type into the location bar:
wiki: cycle path
it searches Wikipedia for that term (and I end up on the Wikpedia entry for segregated cycle facilities).
John Bokma has a good explanation on how to define these, both manually and somewhat automatically. As usual, the manual way to do this lets you implement more customized searches.
A few examples of searches I have defined:
| Keyword | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| wiki: | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s | Searches the English Wikpedia site |
| imdb: | http://imdb.com/find?q=%s | Searches imdb.com |
| lx: | http://www.google.com/linux?q=%s | Google Linux search |
| urc: | http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=%s&as_ugroup=uk.rec.cycling | Searches Google Groups for posts made to the uk.rec.cycling newsgroup |