You can also right click on any search box in Firefix and choose Add a Keyword For This Search, and it will do the same thing.

Another use of that is the one i just set up, you just put in the link of a category and replace the part before “-hacks” with the %s and give the keyword “hack”. Then you can type ‘hack arduino’ to get to the arduino-hacks category.

AFAIK if you type ‘google’ followed by a space and a query it takes you to the search results. It has maybe half a dozen shortcuts already in when you install it.

I have my shortcuts set up to use single letters: g, i, n, d, w… Google, Google Images, Google News, tfd.com, Wikipedia…

I saw on CNN (or maybe it was a movie) that software hacking is illegal. Will I go to jail for these mysterious firefox hacks?

This “hack” has been around since Firefox 1. Way to drudge up yet another old hat trick.

Yeah, this is a nice little thing to get used to using. I’ve got a shortcut for all my standard searches (g google, wp wikipedia, am amazon) plus a few for my bugzilla at work, dev server stuff, media server stuff… the list goes on. I’m an absolute minimalist for my firefox, TBH, so this trick was one I started to use when I wanted to find a way to eliminate my search bar… especially great for my netbook. I literally have nav buttons (because I’ve found that flash, annoyingly enough, oftentimes steals keyboard focus to the point that shortcuts for forward/backward don’t work), a force stop button (for similar situations), and my URL bar… they’re all on one line. That, plus URL tooltip (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12015) to eliminate the need for a status bar has drastically decreased the amount of screen real estate used by my windows (one UI line, plus a tab bar)… On 1440×900 displays, or 1920×1080, it may be a little overkill, sure :P. On the smaller netbook screens (MSI Wind), though, every vertical pixel counts. It’s good stuff.

So what, you guys read the firfox documentation? Whats next, when you put bread in a toaster and then push down on the lever in 5 minutes you will have toast? WTF is this?

Seriously… please, I’m here to read about hacks :/

Next on hackaday, how to type “man” in an xterm?

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