A smart keyword (also known as bookmark keyword, or keymark for short) is a special kind of bookmark that replaces a special sequence, %s, in the bookmark location field (URL) with the text entered after the keyword in the address bar. This article shows step by step how to create your own smart keywords. It also explains how you can import several useful smart keywords from a file given.
Read the rest of Firefox bookmark keywords explained.
Why is the Quick Search/keyword example file compressed? And with .gz no less. Talk about making it difficult, gheez.
Hi,
I will look into a better way to make them available, and also rewrite the article soon.
Thanks
any ideas on how to set up a book search keymark on amazon.com?
i tried "http://www.amazon.com/books?q=%s" but that only gets me to the book browsing page - no search results.
...books?query=%s doesn't work either.
Finally, an actually helpful website. The second (and easier) method did fix my lack of quick search-ness. THANKS!!!!!!!!
Is there any way to make keymark search search http://www.google.com/search?q=john+bokma instead of http://www.google.com/search?q=john%20bokma? I.e. replace "%20" with "+"?
There are two extensions which make Smart Keywords much better. Search Firefox's extensions webpage for "SmartSearch" and "KeywordSelection".
It's worth noting that the firefox will blithely let you "add a keyword for this search" on POST forms too, without doing anything other than copying the action. Often times a sever will accept GET or POST, so you might want to try something like the first bookmarklet here and see if this is the case. Finally, it looks like FF doesn't understand some changes you might make to a context menu generated keymark?
Hi. Great tips. Thanks a lot! I was looking for this because I used to use 'alias's' in Slimbrowser and really missed them. Same idea.
Now if only FF had 'groups' like slimbrowser. Do you know how to do that? I know I can save all open tabs together like a group but.. that group is then folded into the one bookmark.html file. with SB when you save groups they are saved individually. Which I like, because sometimes I want to copy just one group of sites to my other computer and not replace the complete bookmarks.
Thanks again.
I did not really understand the instructions so I looked at bookmark manager. If you right click on any saved bookmark, then select properties and both name and location of the bookmark is already completed. All you have to do then is type in the keyword you want and test. Batta-bing your done.
Smart dooode... thanks for the tips... this is exactly what i wanted
Thanks... I was searching for an extension to do this, who would have thought it was built right in :-)
Cool. Any idea if there is an extension to change the image of a bookmark if the site does not have a favicon?
Nice one John, exactly what I needed.
I wanted to set up "googleuk" to perform, you guessed it, a UK sites only search (handy when searching for things to buy, where US sites aren't of much use).
Never knew it was as simple as going to google.co.uk, selecting "UK sites", then right-clicking and choosing "Add keyword for this search".
Great stuff.
Thanks John, I'll have to play with this.
Thanks John, nice guideline, very helpful.
I love firefox and as i have a lot of bookmarks this post helped me alot. Thanks
did you test instantfox with the keyword search?
thanks! i was looking for someone to teach me this
Thanks a lot. It was very helpful.
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The tips/tricks are very useful!
Thanks and I'll be back!
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