Over the weekend, I found this really neato feature in Mozilla/Firefox that allows URL loading using keywords. What’s great about this is that you can pass a word/text string as an input to the URL. Great feature for pulling up bugzilla case histories, searches etc.
If you have not removed the default bookmarks that come with the Firefox/Mozilla install, you probably have some of the bookmarks with keywords defined already. Type “slang blogging” in the addressbar and hit Enter. If the bookmarks are there, then it will pull up the Urban Dictionary website with the search results for blogging. He-he.
To add new bookmarks
a) Create a new bookmark (for e.g. https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3651)
b) In the bookmark Properties dialog box, add a keyword for that URL ( for e.g. samba )
c) In the URL field, find and replace the bug # with %s
d) Save and Close. Now you can type samba <bug #> in the address bar, and the samba bug report for the bug number you entered is loaded!
You can also create keyword bookmarks by right-clicking in any search field.
Learn more about it at the MozillaZine Knowledge Base
There has to be a way to make the whole social bookmarking area of each page more compact. Addthis.com does a pretty good job. You’d have to hardcode it though.