Firefox: Keyword Shortcuts 2019
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For years I’ve had shortcuts in Firefox. In this example, I’ve long been able to type i thing
in my URL-bar and it would immediately take me to a google image search for “thing”. In the past this was added by right-clicking “search” on some page and selecting “add a shortcut for this search”. At some point, though, that went away. The functionality is now hidden a little, and you solve it with bookmarks (which I also haven’t used in any form for years). Instructions still worked here: https://superuser.com/questions/830806/how-to-create-keyword-shortcuts-for-firefox-searches
How I made my Duck Duck Go (DDG) image search whenever I type “i thing” in my url:
- Bookmark a search page for DDG.
- Find and edit that bookmark in the firefox bookmarks (default key to get there:
C-b
) - Use a
%s
to represent whatever you type in the future in the URL string, like so:https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&atb=v173-1&ia=images&iax=images
(see the ?q=%s part in there? That’s all I added) - Told it I wanted “i” as my keyword
Done. Now whenever I start my url with “i” (space), I launch a DDG image search for my thing.