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I haven't played with Firefox keywords really but isn't the saved search still going through whatever the default search engine is (in Firefox, Google)? [Updat
by teaneedz 13y ago
I haven't played with Firefox keywords really but isn't the saved search still going through whatever the default search engine is (in Firefox, Google)?
[Update] I guess my point is that DDG has it ready to go and the syntax is usually easy enough to figure out without building up one's own keyword list.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it just seems that DDG offers a better solution.
- teeja 13y agoExample: I use the letter 'd' for DDG searches in the address bar. In the "Show all bookmarks" window for the DDG bookmark, I've filled in "Location: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s" and "Keyword: d" . When I enter into the address bar: "d turkey trot [return]" Firefox turns that into "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=turkey https://duckduckgo.com/?q=turkey trot" and initiates the DDG search. But you can use the same FF keyword feature to auto-generate a URL for any site. If you go to BoingBoing a lot, you could just enter 'bb [return]'. [Note: some of the DDG 'bangs' are out of date ... try !js]
- mateuszf 13y agoNo, it doesn't go through default search engine, only one http direct get request to the target search engine.
- teaneedz 13y agoGot it. I made DDG my default in the awesome bar, but I understand the benefits of the saved keyword approach better now.