Firefox Smart Keywords, revisited
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Firefox Smart Keywords is yet another awesome feature built into Firefox. FF Smart Keywords lets you automatically use the search engine of any website from your address bar, using your defined keyword followed by your search query.
Let me give you a scenario. I use YouTube a lot. Instead of going to YouTube.com, then going to the search field to run my query…I could just run a YouTube query search from my address bar using my keyword for YouTube.
Here is how it works:
And that is it, you are done. Now using my YouTube example, all I need to do is enter yt lamborghini to give me “lambo” videos on YouTube.
- Go to the website you want to create a Smart Keyword for
- Locate the search field on that website
- Right-click on the search field, and click “Add a Keyword for this Search…”
- The “Add Bookmark” dialog will show up. Enter a name for the bookmark
- In the “Keyword” field, enter the Keyword you would like to use to reference the site. In my YouTube example, I used “yt”
- Click “Ok” to save
It’s Raptor time, Let us go kick some ass AGAIN tonite Raps. It is Game 3 of the playoffs between Toronto and New Jersey, 7 PM EST!!