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Firefox customization

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I just discovered this amazing, yet so simple feature, and I was told this was one of the most underpublished features (it's true...it's not even within the documentation), yet is one of the most useful so here is a little explaination for those that might like it.

What it is, is a customized search. To clarify, I'm not talking about the one that is just right of the location bar; I'm talking about adding "%s" to bookmark URLs, and then giving the Bookmark a keyword in the Bookmark Properties window. So then you can search using "keyword <whatever>" in the location bar, with "<whatever>" being the "%s" of the Bookmark URL).

Example of one I currently got:

Keyword: domain
URL: http://domainsatcost.ca/search.asp?sdomain=[b]%s[/b]

How I use it: "domain devnetwork"

Then that will bring up a domain search for the name devnetwork (com, net, org, ca, etc.).


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Hope this makes life easier. Sure did for me (as you can tell from all the ones I have so far--see 1st screenshot list of sites).
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Firefox ftp

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My personal favorite extension is the Firefox FTP. It's awesome!
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For extensions, I'd have to say mine is Adblock.

*drool* I've never had a program/plugin like this before so this is just freakin' awesome.

I've blocked out all of the major ad publishing websites already, and some various other ones also. If I keep this up I'll never see another ad online again. 8) :lol:
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Yeah, I'm right behind you with the adblock thing!
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mine is Web Developer Toolbar, it's great to catch infos about page's design and other stuff ...
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Web Developer, Adblock and Mouse Gestures.

Most important three for me. No point in bloating it to the point of IE. I've not seen an ad for... ooh, months.
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I've like tripled my list of keywords. This is great. I'll share three of my favorite so far:

#1. Gmail Compose: http://gmail.google.com/gmail?view=cm&f ... 1&to=[b]%s[/b]&fs=1
#2. Silicon.com Tech News: http://www.silicon.com/search/?collecti ... uery=[b]%s[/b]&Search.x=17&Search.y=4&Search=Search
#3. Currency Exchange (USD to CAD): http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=[b]%s[/b]&From=USD&To=CAD
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Woa, FireFTP is awesome.

I have no freakin' idea why anybody would ever want to use Internet Explorer.
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My list of favourite extensions (in no particular order):

Developer's Toolbar
FoxyTunes
AdBlock
IEView
McSearchPreview
MagPie
NukeAnything (love it)
DeskCut
Sage
Google PageRank
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Best one ever: Tabbrowser Extensions
Other good ones: FoxyTunes, Webdeveloper, BBCode, IEView, MagPie

BTW, the google bar can be customized to allow other engines, like the PHP Docs, MySQL docs, altavista, etc :)
Here for more info
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Post by m3mn0n »

vigge89 wrote:BTW, the google bar can be customized to allow other engines, like the PHP Docs, MySQL docs, altavista, etc :)
Here for more info
Bookmark: "http://php.net/%s" with the keyword "php" then...

"php file_get_contents" in the location bar. :D
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hmm, discovered that when you don't pass an "argument", it just adds the %s, it doesn't get taken away :(
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Question, is it possible to set excludes for AdBlock? I have a bunch of rules and a sort of nuke-all solution (much against my normal tactics, but I'm just testing lol) of '*ads*' without the quotes. However, there is a site, (a virtual airline, yes, aviation is another of my big hobbies) with 'now flying to' adverts on the right, that are quite interesting for a few reasons: 1) I've done a couple of them. 2) They keep me up to date on the schedules 3) They're interesting to see snapshots of a place. Unfortunately they are stored in /ads/ is it possible to set an exclude or should I go back to my previous method, which worked fine too?
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I don't think there is a way, but it is a damn good suggestion for a future version of Adblock.

You should e-mail that to the developer of it. :)
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Post by irealms »

hmmm keep hearing about this firefox thing :) Wondering if i should try it, whats it like for compatability?
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