[ILUG] Mozilla has a command line

Justin Mason jm at mail.netnoteinc.com
Wed Sep 6 12:27:07 IST 2000


Well, kinda -- check it out...

--j.

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Date:    Tue, 05 Sep 2000 13:49:12 -0700
From:    "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker at acm.org>
To:      galeon-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Galeon-devel] Bookmark Ideas

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Rich Blinne wrote:

> While we are on bookmark ideas take a look at Opera.  They have a
> keyword/nickname approach which is to die for.  Any bookmark can have a
> nickname.  When a keyname pick is called then you start typing as soon as the
> kename is unique, away you go.  Makes for super fast navigation.  Opera also 
has
> a very good implentation of keyboard navigation also.  Their web site is at
> http://www.operasoftware.com.  They also have their sights on being the
> small/fast/standards compliant browser for Linux.  But they are not open sour
ce
> and use the Qt toolkit (boo, hiss :-).

Mozilla goes one better.  Any bookmark can have a keyword associated with
it.  Not only that, but anything which follows the keyword will be
substituted for "%s" in the bookmark's URL.  So, for example, I have a
Mozilla bookmark http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=%s, and a
keyword "bug".  When I type "bug 50994", I am magically transported to the
bug report.

Repeat the same procedure for "freshmeat ssh", "weather san francisco,
ca", "quote YHOO", etc.

It is a very handy feature.

-jwb

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