Comments on: Developer Toolbox – Better Bookmarks w/OpenBook

By: Dan G. Switzer, II

Dan G. Switzer, II — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:10:44 +0000

The “keyword” feature is actually built in to Firefox, but it’s not exposed at the “Add Bookmark” dialog. You need to go to the bookmark’s properties.

You can also use the %s string to specify where you want the text to go after your keyword. For example, if you set up a bookmark for google with a keyword of “go” and a url of: http://www.google.com/search?&q=%s

You could type “go the crumb” to do a Google search for “the crumb”.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:47:54 +0000

Interesting!! Not sure about Windows but at home on Ubuntu (Firefox 2.0.0.12) if I simply hit Bookmarks > Bookmark This Page… I don’t see the keyword dialog. I have to add the bookmark then edit it’s properties in order to add a keyword.

If I have the OpenBook extension I see that regardless of which method I use to add a bookmark.

By: Rob Wilkerson

Rob Wilkerson — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:02:47 +0000

The base FF2 install offers the keyword capability. http://robwilkerson.instantspot.com/blog/2007/03/30/Shortcut-of-the-Week–Firefox-Keywords

FF3 adds tagging, which is kind of handy.