Firefox Address Bar Tips

Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by gregsadetsky on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:12PM (#36668422)

The same is available in Chrome. I made a list of shortcuts I use here [0] -- copying a few favorites below:

   shortcut: "aw", lets you type: "aw s3", "aw iam", etc.
   https://console.aws.amazon.com/%s

   shortcut: "amzn", searches the retail side
   https://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=%s

   shortcut: "gm", searches through gmail (change the 0 if you use multiple accounts)
   https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/%s

   shortcut: "maps", searches google maps
   https://www.google.com/maps/search/%s/

   shortcut: "img", searches google images
   https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%s

   shortcut: "wp", goes directly to the article if it exists
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s

   shortcut: "yt", searches youtube
   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s

[0] https://github.com/gregsadetsky/custom-search-engines

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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by cpleppert on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:20PM (#36670728)

You can also use a duckduckgo query like ! site:site.com query. That is more reliable when using something like wikipedia when you aren't sure of the exact title and don't have to type it all out.

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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by Zecc on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:58AM (#36677807)

Of course for Wikipedia specifically you'd use `!wiki query` instead.

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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by robbyking on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:56PM (#36671264)

And IIRC, Chrome copied this from Opera. It's a shame Opera never found its audience (or more specifically, a revenue stream), they pioneered a lot of browser features that we consider to be standard these days, like tabs and support for extensions.

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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by kbenson on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:41PM (#36674005)

It's been around in some form in most major browsers for decades. I remember Creating custom search entries in Firefox (or was it Phoenix still at that point?) in the early 2000's.

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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by tomphoolery on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:55PM (#36674136)

is it really a "shame"? opera is the oldest successful browser of all time.

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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by jessriedel on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:22PM (#36671601)

My list:

Aliexpress alternativeto.net Amazon Apple AppStore ArXiv Bing Video BookFinder ISBN DHL Tracking Number DOI Resolver duckduckgo.com ebay.com Facebook HackerNews (Angolia search) ISBN Search Library Genesis MathOverflow Physics.StackExchange Scholarpedia Sci-Hub (DOI) SciRate (arXiv) Scite.ai Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com Tripadvisor.com Twitter Urban Dictionary Walmart Wayback Machine Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Weather Underground Yelp YouTube Video Search images.google.com scholar.google.com maps.google.com news.google.com scholar.google.com video.google.com

I have about half of these memorized enough to use regularly.

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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by momothereal on Monday July 10, 2023 @05:51PM (#36673445)

My company intranet has a shortcut/URN website that we all configure as "go", so "go home", "go paystubs", etc. Anyone can create URNs. No more stale bookmarks when the HR system keeps changing. Very useful!

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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by anilit99 on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:14PM (#36673743)

Chase?

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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by momothereal on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:44PM (#36674028)

No but I'm sure many big orgs to this! Much easier than updating a home page with 1000+ links

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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by Jenk on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:04PM (#36674214)

My big-org can barely do DNS let alone something as fancy as an intranet search that works/is useable!

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Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips by hipjiveguy on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:42PM (#36675481)

Chrome broke this recently, for shortcuts that have no substitution. The ominibox history takes over.

For example, I used to be able to just type, "yt" and go to youtube, but now Ominbox history replaces it with my most recent history item that has "yt" in it

shortcut: "yt", goes to youtube https://www.youtube.com/

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