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Is there a way to autocomplete user defined search terms in firefox search (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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eg: typing "linux @l" should search "linux lemmy" and "beatles @mb" should search "beatles musicbrainz",
where I define these shortcuts

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You can do almost exactly this with keyword bookmarks. The only change is that you need to put the "keyword" at the start of the URL. So @l linux rather than linux @l.

Create a new bookmark with these settings:

Name: Whatever you want.
URL: The search query you want with the text replaced by %s. For example https://kagi.com/search?q=%s+site:https://lemm.ee.
Keyword: The tag you want. Such as @l.

Now you can type @l foobar in the URL bar and it will go to https://kagi.com/search?q=foobar+site:https://lemm.ee. (Or whatever search engine you have configured.

Keywords can also be used for non-search bookmarks and javascript bookmarklets which are very convenient.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cool! I had no idea that was a feature, thanks for sharing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it is sadly not advertised. Even the "Keyword" box helper text isn't very obvious how it works. They should link to a help page.

Not to mention that they also have search engines which work in a very similar way, but have a different UI, are harder for users to manually define and don't sync across devices via Firefox Sync.

It's a big mess. But it works! So that is enough for me.