Firefox bookmarks tip

I found this excellent tip in Leonid’s blog and he found it in Ovid’s LiveJournal. I am posting it here as well because I think that the more people find out about it, more people will use firefox.

And if you use Firefox, here’s a tip that many don’t seem to know about: keywords.

Let’s say that you’re constantly searching images.google.com. Go there and type a search for “daisies” and bookmark the resulting page. Then, goto Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks and select the bookmark you just saved. Ricght-click the bookmark and select Properties (or Edit -> Properties from the Manage Bookmarks menu). In the resulting dialog box, you can edit Name, Location, Keyword and Description. The Location will look something like this:

http://images.google.com/images?q=daisies&btnG=Search+Images

In that URL, find the word you searched for (daisies, in this case) and replace it with %s:

http://images.google.com/images?q=%s&&btnG=Search+Images

Then, type images in the keyword field. Click OK.

When you’re back at the browser, you can now just type images followed by what you want to search for and you’ll go straight to the google images page for that. Try it with images puppies, for example. This technique will work for just about any site where you can search.