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[Firefox] Search different sites right from your address bar. - Elektrisk - 10-16-2009

NOTE: This tutorial is for Firefox.

Hello.

So, this is probably well known, but if not, it'll help you greatly. In short, this tutorial is over being able to assign a letter (or letters) to search a website, so you can type like "[letter(s)] [search term]" from your address bar and it'll search that site. So, if I assigned 'sf' to supportforums, I could type, for example, "SF firefox help" to search SF for "firefox help". Let's get started.

1. Go to the site you want to do this with. I'll use Youtube as an example.
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2. Right-click the search bar (where you enter the text to search) and click 'Add a keyword for this search':
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3. Enter whatever you want to call it under "Name" (it can be anything; I used Youtube as an example). Then, enter what you want the keyword to be under 'keyword'. I personally use 'y'.:
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4. You're done! To test it, type, for example, "y Tim Mcgraw" in your address bar. You should arrive here.

Enjoy.

Originally posted by me on Supportforums.net

RE: [Tutorial] Search different sites right from your address bar. - Harvey - 10-16-2009

(10-16-2009, 02:15 AM)Elektrisk Wrote: Hello.

So, this is probably well known, but if not, it'll help you greatly. In short, this tutorial is over being able to assign a letter (or letters) to search a website, so you can type like "[letter(s)] [search term]" from your address bar and it'll search that site. So, if I assigned 'sf' to supportforums, I could type, for example, "SF firefox help" to search SF for "firefox help". Let's get started.

1. Go to the site you want to do this with. I'll use Youtube as an example.


2. Right-click the search bar (where you enter the text to search) and click 'Add a keyword for this search':


3. Enter whatever you want to call it under "Name" (it can be anything; I used Youtube as an example). Then, enter what you want the keyword to be under 'keyword'. I personally use 'y'.:


4. You're done! To test it, type, for example, "y Tim Mcgraw" in your address bar. You should arrive here.

Enjoy.

This is very useful and I'm sure many people (myself included) didn't know that this feature even existed. I'll definitely use this in the future. Thank-you.

RE: [Tutorial] Search different sites right from your address bar. - chinaman7x7 - 10-16-2009

thank you for the tut. very useful indeed!

RE: [Tutorial] Search different sites right from your address bar. - Elektrisk - 04-09-2010

I'm going to bump this.

RE: [Tutorial] Search different sites right from your address bar. - smileyface - 04-09-2010

Thank you for this wonderful share Elektrisk. This will be very helpful.

RE: [Tutorial] Search different sites right from your address bar. - MyFolder - 04-09-2010

Super tutorial tho.. Thank's..

RE: [Tutorial] Search different sites right from your address bar. - Quintus - 04-18-2010

I used to manually change my search engine (the icons at the upper right corner). This is indeed very helpful.

RE: [Tutorial] Search different sites right from your address bar. - Elektrisk - 05-18-2010

I'd like for others to see this.

RE: [Tutorial] Search different sites right from your address bar. - daneasaur - 05-18-2010

You should add that it does not work for GoogleChrome browser.

RE: [Tutorial] Search different sites right from your address bar. - Elektrisk - 05-18-2010

(05-18-2010, 11:03 PM)daneasaur Wrote: You should add that it does not work for GoogleChrome browser.

Ah. I can't believe I didn't state it was only for Firefox. I'll fix that now. Thanks Smile