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Firefox supports custom search engines, the most bang for the buck custom search engine must be https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s with k

Firefox supports custom search engines, the most bang for the buck custom search engine must be https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s with keyword being the letter d. Then you get all these 13000+ bangs without having to configure the custom search engines. E.g. write "d !drive term" in url bar. And "d !w hacker news" sends you directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

codethief 6y ago
Or you just set DDG as your default search engine and then you don't even have to type the "d" anymore. :)
t0astbread 6y ago
Slightly off-topic but this is an important PSA. Firefox keyword search has one little known killer feature: You can combine it with data URIs and JavaScript to run small "command line snippets" stored in your bookmarks from your browser bar. To get started, create a keyword search from any form (like the search bar on duckduckgo.com) and edit the URL of the entry in the bookmark manager to point to data:text/html,<script>alert("%s")</script> instead. What you can do with this is (fortunately) limited by cross-origin restrictions but there are some useful applications. For example, I use this snippet data:text/html,<script>i="%s";firstSep=i.indexOf(" ");if(firstSep==-1)firstSep=i.length;subreddit=i.substr(0,firstSep);searchTerm=i.substr(firstSep+1);location=`https://old.reddit.com/r/${encodeURIComponent(subreddit)}${(searchTerm!=null&&searchTerm.replace(/\s/,"").length>0)?`/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(searchTerm)}&restrict_sr=1`:""}`</script> as a nice shortcut to Reddit ("<keyword> <subreddit>" to jump to a Subreddit, "<keyword> <subreddit> <search string>" to search within a Subreddit). You can also insert content directly into the document which opens the possibility for instant marquee data:text/html,<marquee>%s</marquee>
diarrhea 6y ago
This would be amazing, but gives me '405 - Not Allowed - nginx', see also [0]. Strange. [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625901 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625901 EDIT: That error occurred when going Right Click -> Add Keyword from the website. If setting the bookmark manually completely, it works.
kevincox 6y ago
Or just create a bookmark for https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=% https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=% and type `drive term` or whatever you call it without bouncing through DDG.
- ffpip 6y ago
  This works on every device you own. You don't need to setup anything. And there are thousands more at duckduckgo.com/bang .

codethief 6y ago

Or you just set DDG as your default search engine and then you don't even have to type the "d" anymore. :)

t0astbread 6y ago

Slightly off-topic but this is an important PSA. Firefox keyword search has one little known killer feature: You can combine it with data URIs and JavaScript to run small "command line snippets" stored in your bookmarks from your browser bar. To get started, create a keyword search from any form (like the search bar on duckduckgo.com) and edit the URL of the entry in the bookmark manager to point to data:text/html,<script>alert("%s")</script> instead. What you can do with this is (fortunately) limited by cross-origin restrictions but there are some useful applications. For example, I use this snippet data:text/html,<script>i="%s";firstSep=i.indexOf(" ");if(firstSep==-1)firstSep=i.length;subreddit=i.substr(0,firstSep);searchTerm=i.substr(firstSep+1);location=`https://old.reddit.com/r/${encodeURIComponent(subreddit)}${(searchTerm!=null&&searchTerm.replace(/\s/,"").length>0)?`/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(searchTerm)}&restrict_sr=1`:""}`</script> as a nice shortcut to Reddit ("<keyword> <subreddit>" to jump to a Subreddit, "<keyword> <subreddit> <search string>" to search within a Subreddit). You can also insert content directly into the document which opens the possibility for instant marquee data:text/html,<marquee>%s</marquee>

diarrhea 6y ago

This would be amazing, but gives me '405 - Not Allowed - nginx', see also [0]. Strange. [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625901 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625901 EDIT: That error occurred when going Right Click -> Add Keyword from the website. If setting the bookmark manually completely, it works.

kevincox 6y ago

Or just create a bookmark for https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=% https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=% and type `drive term` or whatever you call it without bouncing through DDG.

ffpip 6y ago
This works on every device you own. You don't need to setup anything. And there are thousands more at duckduckgo.com/bang .