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Firefox customization
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 2:47 pm
by m3mn0n
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.).
Screenshots:
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).
Firefox ftp
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:08 pm
by neophyte
My personal favorite extension is the Firefox FTP. It's awesome!
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:11 pm
by m3mn0n
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.

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:30 pm
by neophyte
Yeah, I'm right behind you with the adblock thing!
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:52 pm
by mudkicker
mine is Web Developer Toolbar, it's great to catch infos about page's design and other stuff ...
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:35 am
by AngusL
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.
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:18 am
by m3mn0n
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
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:28 am
by The Monkey
Woa, FireFTP is awesome.
I have no freakin' idea why anybody would ever want to use Internet Explorer.
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:06 pm
by patrikG
My list of favourite extensions (in no particular order):
Developer's Toolbar
FoxyTunes
AdBlock
IEView
McSearchPreview
MagPie
NukeAnything (love it)
DeskCut
Sage
Google PageRank
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:34 pm
by vigge89
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
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:48 am
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.

Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 4:09 pm
by vigge89
hmm, discovered that when you don't pass an "argument", it just adds the %s, it doesn't get taken away

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:33 am
by AngusL
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?
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:46 am
by m3mn0n
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.

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:41 am
by irealms
hmmm keep hearing about this firefox thing

Wondering if i should try it, whats it like for compatability?