On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Dave Arquati wrote:

Mrs Redboots wrote:
TheOneKEA wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 25 Jan 2005:

JFYI, I maintain that extension. If you want additional tab features,
you should add the miniT, Click2Tab, FLST and Undo Close Tab
extensions.

Oh, i hadn't seen Undo Close Tab before - useful!

Thank you. I find I am liking Firefox more and more, the more I use it.
Daughter and her fiancé made me download it at first, but I don't think
even they realise some of its features! I've spent several hours this
afternoon playing with it, and really making friends with it. Now all I
have to do is learn to write source code....

That's the spirit!

I've been using it for ages and only this week discovered an extremely
useful feature - type "goto search term" in the address bar and it'll do
a Google I'm Feeling Lucky search on the search term. If you can guess
easily how to bring up a site as the first result, then this is
extremely quick. For example: "goto tfl 2016 map".

As has been pointed out, you don't need the goto. Also, if you'd rather
have the full search results than the I'm Feeling Lucky redirect, you can
change it: enter "about:config" in the location bar, pause briefly to
marvel at the vista of tweaking opportunities that has just opened to you,
find the entry for browser.search.defaulturl (for example, by entering it
into the filter box) and change it to:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

Or some other search URL.

You can also add your own keywords to any bookmark, which is again very
useful, so you can quickly access links even if they're not on your
quick links bar. For example, I have the keyword "tfljp" which takes me
directly to TfL's full Journey Planner, rather than the front page of
journeyplanner.org.

Ah, but have you felt the awesome power of fully operational search
shortcuts? Make a bookmark with a %s (percent sign, letter s) in the URL
and give it a keyword. Now enter "keyword something" in the location bar;
you'll go the URL you entered, but with the %s replaced with the text
after the keyword. For example, i've got:

http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk...mary.aspx?T=%s

With the keyword 'ldb'; thus, i can type 'ldb FPK' to see the trains at
Finsbury Park. That might actually be a bad example, since a google search
for 'ldb FPK' seems to do just as well!

What's more, you can combine search shortcuts with bookmarklets to
essentially turn your location bar into a command line interface - and
that's what i call REAL ultimate power .

tom

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