Comments on: Firefox Quicksearches + Google Keywords = Sick Power

By: dmiessler.com | Better Quicksearches with QuickSilver

dmiessler.com | Better Quicksearches with QuickSilver — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:29:41 +0000

[...] out there I’m rather obsessed with doing things the best way possible. Up until yesterday I was using browser-based quick searches to perform quick Internet searches. But there’s a better [...]

By: Tony Vance

Tony Vance — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:08:11 +0000

Firefox Quicksearches are great. What makes them even better is QuickSilver. Whereas with Firefox you have to switch to the application and then ctrl/cmd-L, with QuickSilver I can be anywhere in the OS and have access to the QuickSearch. In your example I would key: cmd-space, g, then tab, tab, and then type: /maps sf .

QuickSilver is also great for bookmarks. To me, it never made since to create lots of bookmarks because it takes so long to scroll through them. However, with QuickSilver bookmarks are indexed, so to access your blog I can just type from anywhere, cmd-space, tab, tab, and then : drm .

By: Tony Vance

Tony Vance — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:08:00 +0000

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By: Jason Powell

Jason Powell — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:41:53 +0000

Arguably, you could already do this with the URL field in Firefox. Either setup a quicksearch for Google Maps (e.g., gm americus ga), or use Google's built-in modifiers (g phonesearch: somebody somewhere).

The benefit of Google Command Line is you can just setup a single quicksearch that'll perform a lot of specialized searches. The downside is more stuff to remember than setting up individual quicksearches. For example, if I want to search images on Google...

Google Command Line: g /img butterflies

Plain Ol' Quicksearch: gi butterflies

One is more work initially, the other is more work later. Neither is much work at all.

By: Jason Powell

Jason Powell — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:41:00 +0000

Google Command Line: g /img butterflies

Plain Ol' Quicksearch: gi butterflies

One is more work initially, the other is more work later. Neither is much work at all.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:29:11 +0000

That's awesome. I wasn't reading your blog back in '05 when you first posted this so I'm glad you've revisited the topic. This is definitely getting set up on my browser asap.

You can also use Alt-D to get to the URL bar which seems flows a little better than CTRL-L, at least to me. Well, I don't know; maybe your way is easier.

Of course, CTRL-T gives you a new tab AND puts you at the URL bar, which I'll probably use more anyway.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:29:00 +0000

That's awesome. I wasn't reading your blog back in '05 when you first posted this so I'm glad you've revisited the topic. This is definitely getting set up on my browser asap.

You can also use Alt-D to get to the URL bar which seems flows a little better than CTRL-L, at least to me. Well, I don't know; maybe your way is easier.

Of course, CTRL-T gives you a new tab AND puts you at the URL bar, which I'll probably use more anyway.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:29:00 +0000

That's awesome. I wasn't reading your blog back in '05 when you first posted this so I'm glad you've revisited the topic. This is definitely getting set up on my browser asap.

You can also use Alt-D to get to the URL bar which seems flows a little better than CTRL-L, at least to me. Well, I don't know; maybe your way is easier.

Of course, CTRL-T gives you a new tab AND puts you at the URL bar, which I'll probably use more anyway.