Custom Firefox searches
December 22nd, 2005One of the most valuable features of the Firefox browser is the ability to add custom keywords to search boxes within any website in the world. Its as easy as right-clicking on a search box and adding a custom keyword for that search. Once this is done, a search can be performed by entering the keyword in the location bar of the browser, followed by the search terms. This is an incredibly fast way of searching for information, even faster than the search box embedded in the browser window (which uses a drop-down menu where you can add more search engines as well). Firefox includes a few by default, such as ‘dict’ followed by a search term, searches Dictionary.com for the definition of the search term. I’ve added a few for myself, such as ‘wiki’ to search Wikipedia.org, ‘thes’ to search Thesaurus.com and ‘olga’ for the Online Guitar Archive at Olga.net.
