Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks

Re:Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks by chrismorgan on Thursday July 05, 2018 @01:49AM (#17461118)

Firefox also has the little-known keyword functionality. Bookmark https://bugs.example.com/issue/%s, in the bookmark manager give it the keyword `bug`, and then typing “bug PROJ-123456” will take you to https://bugs.example.com/issue/PROJ-123456. (On some search fields there may be an “Add a Keyword for this Search…” item which helps with creating the bookmark with keyword, too.)

A quick look around https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP... suggests that it’s not possible to control the keywords and tags from an extension in Firefox; this is a sad omission: I’d really like an extension which imported all of DuckDuckGo’s !bangs as bookmarks with keywords, so that you could type in exactly the same stuff and have it bypass duckduckgo.com.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1276817 is about adding that, but weird stuff is happening there. I’m going to follow it up, because I’d hate to see this functionality lost. I use it for a number of things.

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Re:Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks by Nadya on Thursday July 05, 2018 @07:35PM (#17467787)

Adding a keyword used to be more prominent and easy to do - you could right click any search bar and "Add as Keyword" - or you could edit the Bookmark link manually when bookmarking a page. They "simplified" bookmarking to where I need to navigate through several layers of menus to access the Bookmark Manager where I can finally edit the bookmark to add a Keyword and update the link to what it needs to be.

I have no idea why they made bookmarks so much more difficult to work with and I'm not sure when it happened - as I updated from FF39 to FF60. Using Quantum for the last few weeks - I'm pretty sure I'll be going back to FF39 as it's simply more usable. Especially since add-ons that were a large part of my workflow actually work (or even exist at all...)

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Re:Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks by chrismorgan on Thursday July 05, 2018 @08:10PM (#17467946)

“Add a Keyword for this Search…” is still there in the context menu.

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Re:Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks by Nadya on Friday July 06, 2018 @04:18PM (#17474779)

Checked on my work computer and you're right! Something must be going on with my userChrome.css back at home that's inadvertently hiding it from me, since I hide useless context menu options like "Set as Desktop Background...", "Email Image", etc. Something I'm hiding must be hiding "Add as a Keyword for this Search..." on accident.

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Re:Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks by chrismorgan on Saturday July 07, 2018 @01:30AM (#17477202)

And debugging those things can be nasty!

I wish :contains() had stayed in CSS Selectors Level 3, or that you could use XPath in stylesheets.

Hmm… #contentAreaContextMenu actually looks pretty sane. They all have IDs, which I really should have expected anyway. I’m going to add some rules to my own userChrome.css. Thanks for the idea!

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Re:Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks by chrismorgan on Thursday July 05, 2018 @08:13PM (#17467961)

Search engines can also have keywords (see about:preferences#search), but since extensions can’t programmatically create search engines this is not a great deal of help.

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Re:Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks by franga2000 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @05:03PM (#17466829)

I'd like to import DDG bangs into Firefox too, as the 3 redirects DDG does every time are painfully slow. I already have a scripts that imports them directly into the FF bookmark database, but I haven't had the time to figure out how to get a list of DDG bangs. If/when I do, expect a Show HN.

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Re:Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks by chrismorgan on Thursday July 05, 2018 @08:11PM (#17467950)

I found a list of bangs with URLs: see https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/8w8vk5/a_list_o...

Please do go ahead and make this. It’ll save me the trouble of doing it! I was figuring on just generating a NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file from the JSON and importing it manually.

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