Navdeep Shergill (A Geek at heart)

Firefox tip that everyone should know

October 10th, 2006

One thing about being a geek is that you think that everyone knows the tips/tricks about software that you do. One of my favorite tips is to use the ‘keyword search’ feature in Firefox. It allows me to type in queries like: ‘yt shergill’ in the address bar and then search youtube for the word ’shergill’. I got another one for dictionary.com set to be ‘dict some word’. That way I can quickly get the definition of a word without actually going to dictionary.com first. Do you want to know how to set this up? Its pretty easy. Just go to the site that has a search feature. Lets go to google.com. Right-click in the search box and there should be an entry called ‘Add a Keyword for this search’. Go ahead and chose this. This will know pop up a dialog box. Type in Name: Google, Keyword: g and then click ‘ok’. Now you can type in ‘g apple’ in your address bar to search for ‘apple’ on google. Pretty sweet huh?

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