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I like using smart bookmarks like this for specialty searches, e.g. only searching Wikipedia http://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Aen.wikipedia.org http://w
by liquidben 17y ago
I like using smart bookmarks like this for specialty searches, e.g. only searching Wikipedia
http://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Aen.wikipedia.org http://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Aen.wikipedia.org
But if I'm searching the entire internet, I just hit CTRL+K to jump to the search box. Beatcha by two keystrokes! :-p
- timf 17y agoAgreed. But like I said, you won't get the benefits of the history incremental search. Also, I maybe should have mentioned I have a lot of other one letter shortcuts like that so "g" fits rights in.
- jerf 17y agoActually, you do get history for your searches, and Google's autosuggest, in modern versions of Firefox. What you say used to be true, but from what I can see CTRL-K strictly dominates a bookmark keyword if you're starting from scratch. That said, if you've already got "CTRL-L g space" in your fingers, it's not so much better that you should switch.
- unalone 17y agoYou also get this in Safari. Incidentally, for Mac users it's incredibly trivial to set up a hotkey for the search box. I have it mapped to CMD-E, and it greatly eases my web flow.
- timf 17y agoI'm on Firefox 3.5 and didn't see that behavior.
- jerf 17y agoIn about:config, do you have browser.search.suggest.enabled set to True? I have a firefox right here and it's working fine. (since that's probably obscure as the joke is old, that's a reference to the ancient copied at http://www.ahajokes.com/lig069.html http://www.ahajokes.com/lig069.html )