Topic awaiting preservation: FireFox knows what I'm thinking

I had intended to search for song lyrics using the quick google search, but instead typed the song name in the address bar and hit enter. before I realized I was in the wrong field I actually got the lyrics I was looking for. so I tried several phrases in the address bar and sure enough I kept getting relevant websites. I guess the whole point of this post is to ask how FF is picking these sites. I assume it's like clicking the "I Feel Lucky" button on google, does anybody know more about this?



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I assume it's like clicking the "I Feel Lucky" button on google, does anybodyknow more about this?

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Indeed it is using I'm Feeling Lucky. Open up Firefox and into the location bar send "about:config". In the Filter: box, send "keyword.URL". There it is, the default behavior for what you type into the location bar (assuming you do not include a valid TLD).

Now for the extra fun - the "Search bar" is made completely obsolete by bookmark keywords such as this. When I want to search google, I hit CTRL+L, type in "? search terms here" and hit enter. When I want to search http://tfd.com/ (dictionary), I type "dict search terms". You can do it with virtually any website that has a decent searching function, and for the ones that don't, you can have google do it for you (e.g.: "? search terms site:whatever.com").

Read up, man: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

Firefox comes with a handful of them preset by default, just check out the "Quick Searches" folder in your bookmarks (right-click for Properties to see the keywords used).

(And go to View > Toolbars > Customize and you can click-and-drag the search bar into the box, getting rid of it )

(Edited by reisio on 07-19-2005 11:33)