Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

Re:Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57? by forapurpose on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @07:40PM (#15709372)

You could use bookmark keywords in Firefox, which provide a similar function:

1. Create a bookmark for some-service.example.com/search?q=foo

2. Open the properties for the bookmark. Replace "foo" with "%s" (the universal string for bookmark keyword variables). In the keyword field, type some letter or string you'll remember; I'll use "q". Close the properties dialog.

3. In the URL field, type "q my-search-terms".

(At least that worked in older versions of FF.) It requires more setup, but works permanently.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57? by ospfer on Thursday November 16, 2017 @03:31PM (#15716323)

It appears that this process has been streamlined a bit. If you right-click in a search field on any site, the context menu has an option to "Add a keyword for this search." The new bookmark will then be created with the "%s" string in the appropriate position in the URL to make this work.

I've set it up for a number of sites since converting over to Firefox yesterday and have yet to find a site that this method doesn't work for.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57? by joshka on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:38PM (#15709895)

Thanks

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