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Similarly, in Firefox (and maybe other browsers) you can add keywords to bookmarks, meaning that the browser will open that bookmark if you first type the keywo
by vanderZwan 6y ago
Similarly, in Firefox (and maybe other browsers) you can add keywords to bookmarks, meaning that the browser will open that bookmark if you first type the keyword. It will also then insert anything else you type into the bookmarked URL if it has a %s. So as an alternative, more reliable way to search MDN, I bookmarked this:
https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=site%3Adeveloper.mozilla.org+%s
... and gave it the keyword >mdn (I add ">" as a prefix to all my keyworded bookmarks - avoid accidentally triggering or autocompleting to them).
If I'm browsing and need to look something up, I just hit CTRL+L followed by
>mdn [whatever I'm looking for]
... and off we go
- dredmorbius 6y agoThe benefit to bookmarks / keywords is flexibility and not having to wait for DDG to add (or fix) a given bang search. The downside is that you're speaking your own language, and unless someone adopts your specific keywords, you can't tell them to, say, "bang dict" (if you can get away with saying that in the context). This is a fundamental distinction between any private vs. shared language. (People are very uncomfortable when dropped into my computing environment --- GUI, shells, editors, browsers, etc. They've all acquired several decades of personalisation. Works for me.)