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Rev. Simon Rumble: Firefox search in the URL bar

Post at : 2008-08-12 11:38:37 View：11 Zoom：【B M S】

It seemed people appreciated my last
Firefox tip about deleting autocomplete entries. Here's another
one.
If, like me, Wikipedia is
your first point of call for just about any enquiry, here's a quick
way to search for what you're after, without faffing about with search
sidebars and the like.
What this tip does is allow you to type wp

" in
the URL bar and be instantly transported to the result of searching
Wikipedia for that particular term. So type wp Eltham Palace
and you'll be immediately taken to the page for the art deco
masterpiece in South London.
To do this, create a bookmark with the Location set to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go.
Note the %s component, which will be filled with the search
term. Put wp into the Keyword field of your bookmark. Now
whenever you type wp followed by a space and then your search
term, you'll go to the Wikipedia search.
Obviously this can be used for other searches. For example, I
search the Internet Movie Database with
http://imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%s&x=0&y=0. It's a brilliant way
to search the sites you use all the time.
Update: Andy Owen points out a
much better way of doing this. Right-click on any search box and
select Add a Keyword for this Search... which then pops up the
bookmark window. Much easier than my method, and something you could
explain to mere mortals who don't understand URLs.Contact me

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