Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik  ·  4 months ago

You should setup Search Shortcuts in #Firefox, they have sped up my web browsing experience considerably.

James (@jamesg.blog) wrote up a great summary of how to do so and his experience:

  • https://jamesg.blog/2024/10/13/search-engine-shortcuts-firefox/

I use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, so here are the Search Shortcuts I have setup when I want to explicitly search/lookup something elsewhere, roughly ordered by my perceived frequency of use:

i - IndieWeb - https://indieweb.org/
w - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
g - Google - https://google.com/
d - MDN Web Docs - https://developer.mozilla.org/
m - Google Maps — https://maps.google.com/
b - Bing - https://bing.com/
a - Amazon - https://amazon.com/
x - Twitter - https://twitter.com/search

If you don’t see one of these search engines in your Firefox Settings: Search Shortcuts, you can visit its URL above and then follow the instructions in James’s blog post to add it to your browser’s list of search engines. Once added there, it will show up in the Search Shortcuts table and you can double-click it and add a one-letter (or more) shortcut as you wish!

What Search Shortcuts have you setup in your browser?

#search #OpenSearch #webSearch #SearchShortcuts #browserTip #FirefoxTip #searchTip

You should setup Search Shortcuts in #Firefox, they have sped up my web browsing experience considerably.

James (@jamesg.blog) wrote up a great summary of how to do so and his experience:
* https://jamesg.blog/2024/10/13/search-engine-shortcuts-firefox/

I use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, so here are the Search Shortcuts I have setup when I want to explicitly search/lookup something elsewhere, roughly ordered by my perceived frequency of use:

i - IndieWeb - https://indieweb.org/
w - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
g - Google - https://google.com/
d - MDN Web Docs - https://developer.mozilla.org/
m - Google Maps — https://maps.google.com/
b - Bing - https://bing.com/
a - Amazon - https://amazon.com/
x - Twitter - https://twitter.com/search

If you don’t see one of these search engines in your Firefox Settings: Search Shortcuts, you can visit its URL above and then follow the instructions in James’s blog post to add it to your browser’s list of search engines. Once added there, it will show up in the Search Shortcuts table and you can double-click it and add a one-letter (or more) shortcut as you wish!

What Search Shortcuts have you setup in your browser?

#search#OpenSearch#webSearch#SearchShortcuts#browserTip#FirefoxTip#searchTip
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💐 🏖 🌺 𝕂𝕚𝕂𝕚  ·  7 months ago
@tchambers @Vivaldi the problem is, #Firefox is free. How do they pay their staff? 🤷‍♂️

Reminds me of Opera’s agreement with Google enabling their search by default, requiring a workaround that is far from obvious to find.

Love Vivaldi. For school systems on a Mac that “require” Chrome, using Vivaldi instead has always worked, rather than pollute a MacOS with sh8tty Google spyware.

It’s the same argument for supporting a Mastodon instance without advertising.