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Easily Manage Firefox 3 Keyword Quick Searches
5:00AM Gina Trapani | You already know how to set up Firefox quick searches by right-clicking in a web page’s search box—like on the Google home page—and choosing “Add a keyword for this search.” Now in Firefox 3, you can manage search engine keywords in Firefox’s built-in search box. Hit the down arrow next to the currently selected engine and choose “Manage Search Engines.” There you can view, add, and edit keywords—like w for Wikipedia. Once you’ve got a quick search set up, just type it and your query into the location bar. For example, typing w Lifehacker will run a search on Wikipedia for Lifehacker. Update: You can’t edit or manage bookmark keywords here, just keywords associated with the engines in the search box. [via Cybernet] More »
Five Quick Searches That Turn Firefox’s Address Bar into a Network Command Line
2:49AM Gina Trapani | On Monday we covered how to ping any server from the Firefox address bar with a quick search bookmark. If your fingers Ctrl+L faster than they launch a terminal window, there are four more quick searches that can turn your address bar into a network command line. After the jump, download a bookmarks file of quick searches for whois, traceroute, email (via Gmail), and domain lookups as well as ping. More »
How to Add Quick Searches to Internet Explorer
2:00AM Gina Trapani | Firefox and Opera both offer keyword bookmark searches by default, and Internet Explorer users can have them too—with a little tweaking. The Productivity Portfolio weblog runs down how to set up custom keyword searches in IE using the previously mentioned TweakUI utility for Windows XP. Here are our favourite 15 keyword bookmark searches. More »
Ping Servers from the Firefox Address Bar
8:00AM Gina Trapani | Reader Rob P. uses Firefox quick search bookmark to see if web servers aren’t reachable. He says: Add this as a Bookmark in Firefox: http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=ping&host=%s I have its keyword as “ping” … so all I have to do is type ping google.com in the address bar. The advantage of pinging a server using a webapp versus from your own command line is that you can see whether or not your network connection is the problem. This looks like a good alternative to sites like DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com, though a bit more geared towards networking geeks. Thanks, Rob P.! More »
