Comments on: Custom Firefox search shortcuts http://www.tedcarnahan.com/2006/10/02/custom-firefox-search-shortcuts/ Jesus, family, music, tech Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:21:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: IGDA Leadership Forum » Blog Archive » Lifehacking for Producershttp://www.tedcarnahan.com/2006/10/02/custom-firefox-search-shortcuts/comment-page-1/#comment-16094 IGDA Leadership Forum » Blog Archive » Lifehacking for Producers Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:29:57 +0000 http://www.tedcarnahan.com/2006/10/02/custom-firefox-search-shortcuts/#comment-16094 [...] Search shortcuts - on searchable sites, you can bookmark sites in Firefox you search on a lot and make shortcuts easily such as “goog search item goes here” [...] [...] Search shortcuts – on searchable sites, you can bookmark sites in Firefox you search on a lot and make shortcuts easily such as “goog search item goes here” [...]

]]> By: My Quest to Kill Fewer People at My Presentations. | Clarify Mehttp://www.tedcarnahan.com/2006/10/02/custom-firefox-search-shortcuts/comment-page-1/#comment-9461 My Quest to Kill Fewer People at My Presentations. | Clarify Me Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:16:21 +0000 http://www.tedcarnahan.com/2006/10/02/custom-firefox-search-shortcuts/#comment-9461 [...] Helping in my Flickr search was a Firefox short cut that I’d read about. I forgot to bookmark the original post where I learned about this shortcut (dumb, dumb, dumb!) This blog post by Ted Carnahan, though, explains how you can use an interesting feature of Firefox bookmarks to help simplify searches you regularly perform on sites like Flickr, YouTube and a host of others. The long and the short of it is that now if I want to search Flickr using Firefox (or Flock) I can just type fcc and a space and then the term I want to search in the address window of my browser and bingo! I have my personalized search of Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licensed photos. Yippee! Want a photo of an apple–I’ll just type “fcc apple” and viola–lots of photos that have been tagged with apple. I didn’t have to be in Flickr already, pretty neat. [...] [...] Helping in my Flickr search was a Firefox short cut that I’d read about. I forgot to bookmark the original post where I learned about this shortcut (dumb, dumb, dumb!) This blog post by Ted Carnahan, though, explains how you can use an interesting feature of Firefox bookmarks to help simplify searches you regularly perform on sites like Flickr, YouTube and a host of others. The long and the short of it is that now if I want to search Flickr using Firefox (or Flock) I can just type fcc and a space and then the term I want to search in the address window of my browser and bingo! I have my personalized search of Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licensed photos. Yippee! Want a photo of an apple–I’ll just type “fcc apple” and viola–lots of photos that have been tagged with apple. I didn’t have to be in Flickr already, pretty neat. [...]

]]> By: Jaakko H.http://www.tedcarnahan.com/2006/10/02/custom-firefox-search-shortcuts/comment-page-1/#comment-8993 Jaakko H. Fri, 09 May 2008 05:17:47 +0000 http://www.tedcarnahan.com/2006/10/02/custom-firefox-search-shortcuts/#comment-8993 You can also add a keyword (i.e. make quick searches) by right-clicking the form box you'd enter your query words into and choosing "Add a keyword for this search..."This essentially just automatically places %s as the search term and open the bookmark popup.Lifehacker has a couple of good articles that explain some neat details and provide a good set of useful (downloadable?) quick searches. You can also add a keyword (i.e. make quick searches) by right-clicking the form box you’d enter your query words into and choosing “Add a keyword for this search…”

This essentially just automatically places %s as the search term and open the bookmark popup.

Lifehacker has a couple of good articles that explain some neat details and provide a good set of useful (downloadable?) quick searches.

]]> By: Ted Carnahanhttp://www.tedcarnahan.com/2006/10/02/custom-firefox-search-shortcuts/comment-page-1/#comment-742 Ted Carnahan Thu, 03 May 2007 22:19:50 +0000 http://www.tedcarnahan.com/2006/10/02/custom-firefox-search-shortcuts/#comment-742 Yep, we're an all-Ubuntu household. The only Windows machine I still have is a homemade picture frame PC made out of an old Compaq laptop. It runs Windows 98SE, but only because I haven't gotten around to Ubuntu-ing it. Yep, we’re an all-Ubuntu household. The only Windows machine I still have is a homemade picture frame PC made out of an old Compaq laptop. It runs Windows 98SE, but only because I haven’t gotten around to Ubuntu-ing it.

]]> By: Saul Phttp://www.tedcarnahan.com/2006/10/02/custom-firefox-search-shortcuts/comment-page-1/#comment-741 Saul P Thu, 03 May 2007 20:26:33 +0000 http://www.tedcarnahan.com/2006/10/02/custom-firefox-search-shortcuts/#comment-741 Thanks for the tip, Ted. And, btw I noticed you're using Ubuntu in those screenshots, right?Ubuntu FTW! Thanks for the tip, Ted. And, btw I noticed you’re using Ubuntu in those screenshots, right?

Ubuntu FTW!

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