Saving time with firefox
septembre 21, 2008
The goal : make fast request on website you use heavily.
Here is a tips brought by Nicolas Jean, I will share with you. I already knew the power of adding keyword so you can access your favorite website faster by only typing a few letters ( ex : G for Google ). But Nicolas take us one step further :
1. Bookmark a website where you often make request, search request for instance, like http://www.wordreference.com/.
2. Figure out which part of the web address is being modified each time you make a request http://www.wordreference.com/fren/MY_SEARCH_REQUEST. Here I notice that every time I’m looking for the equivalent of the French word in English, only the last part of the address is changing.
3. So, find your bookmark, right click -> property. Here add a keyword : like dfren – meaning dictionary English to French – and substitute MY_SEARCH_REQUEST by %s. You get : http://www.wordreference.com/fren/%s.
4. Now enjoy. Type Ctrl-L or use your mouse to click on the adress bar and type : dfren bonjour.
Magic ! you get the page bringing you the translation of bonjour. A look at your address bar explains the trick : bonjour has been substitute to your %s… Now you can just do this for every search engine you want !
Awesome ! Thx for the tip !
Will you add a “Vim Tips” category ?
lol, indeed it would fit quite nice in this section !
– thx to Starcraft !, because what’s the point of using this kind of software if you are unable to take advantage of what makes him great – yet, I’m very far from being a guru on Vim and won’t ever be :] I just learned the basic to be efficient on this stuff.
Unfortunately, I switched to Emacs recently… I may give you some tips here :]
I know I might have amaze some of you by showing some skills at learning early many shortcuts