Tom Anderson wrote:
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!

I have an itchy trigger finger and click everything with every button,
so I've found it extremely useful.

[Firefox]
[snip very useful info]
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!

I did know about these but I forgot about Live Departure Boards.
Excellent idea. I'm using "trains" as my keyword... people will think I
have some magical computer which works out what I want when I type it in!

Another useful one is:
http://www.multimap.com/map/places.cgi?quicksearch=%s

With keyword "map", the country is at your disposal with postcodes or
places (street names work sometimes but are a bit flaky).

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 .

That's quite scary, and I hadn't even thought of it.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London