Using Smart Keywords In Firefox

// May 18th, 2006 // Technology

Firefox LogoA friend showed me the Smart Keywords in Firefox and now I use them all the time.

From the article:

“A smart keyword (also known as keymark) is a special kind of bookmark that replaces a special sequence, %s, in the bookmark location field (URL) with the text entered after the keyword in the address bar.”

It’s basically a way to create a bookmark to pass parameters to URL’s by typing a shortcut key into the address bar. For instance I use it to search our support ticketing system for a particular ticket number.

I setup a bookmark shortcut so I can type in:

rt [ticket number]

i.e. "rt 1345"

and Firefox automatically reformats the URL as:

http://www.somecomain.com/Display.html?id=1345

The article also describes other ways the feature might be useful.

Read more at John Bokma’s Blog.

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