Comments on: Shortcuts

By: Srinivasan S

Srinivasan S — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:13:53 +0000

I have been using opera for the last 5 years. This has been a standard feature. Earlier it used to adding a command line to the ini file to perform actions such “y bangalore” which will search for bangalore in http://www.yahoo.com. And it comes with a lot of default searches for sites like amazon, ebay, answers. However, in the current version (opera 9) you can just right click on the search field of any web site (which passes strings as a parameter) and create a search.

Regards, S.Srinivasan

By: sujith marar

sujith marar — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:11:37 +0000

Though it will take time for me to use open shortcuts. it is a good one and i might be using some of it for daily search from yahoo. But there is a similar one , which takes directly to the site , that is google’s default home page’ search box right side button “I am feeling lucky” . It takes direct to the page you almost want when u type any keyword, but without the use of pressing ‘!’ keyboard button .That is advantage it gives in terms to performance and usage which i observed quite a while.

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:44:46 +0000

@Gavri : Yeah, Mozilla keywords are one way to go about it.

@Sameer : Thanks for the tip!

@Sridhar : I have a "!g" shortcut that redirects to google search, so yahoo search engine is always the default for me.

By: Sridhar Ratna

Sridhar Ratna — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:11:03 +0000

I use Firefox keyword search. The key sequence is like, “C-l wp WikiPediaArticleName” for wikipedia search.

I like Open Shortcuts, except for that extra work for my fingers.

C-k shift-1 wp Name RET

If google is the default search in firefox, then it becomes,

C-k shift-1 wp Name C- {select Yahoo} RET

but then, I believe one can write a firefox extension that overrides the default firefox keyword search to use open shortcuts. Now, that would be cool!

this-crazy-extension converts, C-l wp Name RET to, C-k shift-1 wiki WikipediaArticleName C- {select Yahoo} RET {undo select Yahoo) (but it can be done programmatically)

By: Sameer Shah

Sameer Shah — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:05:43 +0000

yahooshortcuts.com

add hundreds of yubnub commands to your yahoo shortcuts in just one click!

By: Gavri Fernandez

Gavri Fernandez — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:32:39 +0000

I’ve been using custom keywords in Firefox since forever.

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html

And I recommend a single letter for keywords instead of five. Makes life a lot easier