Comments on: Firefox’s Quick Search

By: Jin

Jin — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:22:41 +0000

It seems most designers are on a mac. I use whatever that does the job. I’ve been on a PC since early days. Also, I can’t afford a mac now :)

By: Bobby Borszich

Bobby Borszich — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:16:48 +0000

Good tips – you develop on a windows pc really? you seem like a mac guy

By: Jin

Jin — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:31:04 +0000

@Jeff, I hear ya on that one. That’s my only complaint about FF. FF3′s memory leak problem is less severe, but it’s still there. Also the performance can be affected by various add-ons too. I notice when I disable Firebug/YSlow, FF is faster.

@Kris, I’m glad you found this helpful. I need to catch up on BSG..

@David, thanks for showing me all the cool tricks! (Dave ‘n I work together)

By: David Lantner

David Lantner — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:01:25 +0000

I use this feature all the time, and Firefox used to include a “Quick Searches” folder in the Bookmarks by default (although I’m not sure when it stopped being included). So, I got used to adding my own folder manually, along with my indispensable searches.

Today, when I found a post at Lifehacker that explains that you can add keywords to search providers included in the Search toolbar (FF3):

click on the down arrow next to, say, the Google icon on the search toolbar
Select “Manage Search Engines”
Add the keyword (but it will prompt you if a keyword is already in use by a bookmark)
profit!

But of course, the search provider has to exist in that list in order to get a keyword.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:09:28 +0000

Great article! I’ve known about keywords to quickly navigate to a site, but I didn’t know about the keyword search option. This will save me a ton of time when I can’t stand waiting to find out what is happening in the episode of Battlestar Galactica (i’m on season 3) so I search for it on wikipedia.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:20:12 +0000

Hmmm…I used Firebug before, and it took me a loooooooong time to figure out that there was a memory leak in it. My browsers would slow to a crawl, and I’d keep closing and opening them all again. Love the concept, hate the execution.