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thehorsefromthehorseheresy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I want to switch to firefox but I haven’t figured out how to do the custom searches that I have on Chrome.
Right now I can enter into the chrome bar, for example, s (space) Birds of Paradise (enter) which will translate into scryfall.com/search?q=birds of paradise&uniqu…
I know I can right click on a given search and “add Keyword for this search” but that doesn’t allow me to do custom URLs (e.g. www.reddit.comm/r/%s to go directly to a subreddit, rather than search).
Firefox doesn’t explain how to do this at all, bjt it is possible. Make a bookmark with the URL you want, and set the keyword to whatever symbol you want ti start it with.
For example,
I did the same with Reddit and it worked on my end. If it doesn’t work for you I’d be happy to help you figure it out.
Definitely possible. Here is a tutorial I’ve been using: superuser.com/a/7374
Lots of people are covering the actual answer, but this is one of the reasons I default to duck duck go on everything - the bang operator. For example:
cat videos !yt or !yt cat videos (or probably even cat !yt videos) will search YouTube for cat videos.
I have a bunch of these that I use all of the time:
I guess they’re up to nearly 14k of these now so chances are the thing you want to search is in the list. Aside from that, Google’s search results are increasingly garbage these days and filled with ads, so while I used to get a lot of use out of !g and !gi, I really don’t any longer.
AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 7 months ago
I gotchu!
In
about:configtypebrowser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefreshand press plus (add as true).Then go to
about:preferences> Search Shortcuts > Add .More reading: superuser.com/a/1756774
Good luck!