I’m totally blown away by how cool this is. Macworld has an article with a bunch of Firefox tips, and this is the best one I’ve seen in ages. It turns out that if you right-click on search field on any page (Command-click for Mac users), you can choose “Add a Keyword for this Search…”. Once you do this, a bookmark form pops up, and you’re prompted to name the bookmark, and choose a keyword for it. Here’s where the magic happens. Once you’ve named it and chosen an appropriate keyword for it (preferably something short and easy to type), you can then use that keyword right in your address bar with a search term and automatically search the site you built the keyword for.
So, for example, I made one for this blog. I named it J.P.C. Search, and made a keyword of ‘blog’. Now, when I type the word ‘blog’ in the Firefox address bar, followed by a search term, say ‘email’, I’ll get the search results page for this site with all results relating to email.
This is wicked cool.
Here’s the Macworld article if you’re interested in checking it out.
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