Mozilla

[Jeremy Howard]

Great! That replaces LittleMozilla as my new favorite! (I hate the oversize buttons on Modern).

[jshumway]

Originally posted by Jeremy Howard
Great! That replaces LittleMozilla as my new favorite! (I hate the oversize buttons on Modern).

That is funny! I hate the oversized buttons too. I was so thrilled that someone made the Pinball theme since it is nice and small.

I also love the keyword feature in the bookmarks. I had not noticed this and it will make it easier to give up PowerMarks. Thanks Jeremy for that tip!

Jeff

[tlvee]

would someone mind describing what the keyword feature is/does?
Tks,
Tom

[tlvee]

whoaa... pinball is awesome... definitely my favorite within 2 seconds.
Tom

[psalzer]

Hey thanks! Pinball is quite nice. Small graphics and they're functional, too.

[jshumway]

Originally posted by tlvee
would someone mind describing what the keyword feature is/does?
Tks,
Tom

The keywords allow you to create a short name for your internet bookmarks and urls.

For example, if you love Google like everyone should, make the keyword for Google - G. Then after you launch Mozilla, just type a "G" in the address line and press enter - there is our friend Google.com.

It is a nice way to get to your favorite sites from the keyboard. There may be more that you can do, but that is what I like about the keywords.

Jeff

[tlvee]

Thanks, Jeff. That works great. I'm liking Mozilla more and more.
"f" is now fastmail.
Tom

[Jeremy Howard]

Make the target of your 'g' shortcut "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s". The '%s' gets substituted with whatever you type after the shortcut. So then type in the location bar 'g fastmail' to search for 'fastmail'. Neat huh?

[tlvee]

more fun than work! ... oh wait, this *is* your work. Doesn't seem fair.
Tom

[follower]

Originally posted by Jeremy Howard
Make the target of your 'g' shortcut "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s". The '%s' gets substituted with whatever you type after the shortcut. So then type in the location bar 'g fastmail' to search for 'fastmail'. Neat huh?

IE can actually do this too, if you install the power toys.

For ages I've had three set up for Google:

gg - search Google normal
ggg - search Google groups
ggc - lookup the URL in the cache

The 'ggc' option is really good because if you get a 404 or server not found error you just need to whack 'ggc' in front of the URL and try again!

I recently added:
ggt - translate the page (seems to use automatic language detection)

You could also add ggs - to restrict the search to a particular site.

The actual urls to use (with the %s) are pretty easy to guess, (and I'd list them if I was at home...).

Phil.

P.S. Who said the command line was dead? :-)