Firefox and go.warwick
Go.warwick includes short-cuts for all departments and services (and many course codes) at Warwick. But typing (say) go.warwick.ac.uk/its in your browser's address bar, while shorter than the full ITS URL, is still more typing than we'd ideally like. Firefox to the rescue; specifically, custom keywords. If you're a Firefox user, try this:-
- Type go.warwick.ac.uk/%s into your address bar and press enter. You'll get a page with a 400 error on it, but that's okay.
- Bookmark this page.
- Edit the bookmark properties and give it a keyword of 'go' (without the quotes).
Now you can type any go.warwick short-cut into your address bar as 'go shortcut'. A few examples:-
- go its
- go library
- go maths
- go law
- go music
- go sport
- go ch149
- go ec130
- etc.
If you try a keyword that doesn't take you anywhere useful, let us know and we can add it.
Of course, this trick works with any search engine or data-driven web service. Here's a list of lots of similar keyword searches, ranging from the obvious (Google) to the obscure (Simpsons quote search).
John Dale
23 Sep 2004 20:56
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[Skip to the latest comment]Steven Carpenter
Worked for me. I've been experimenting too with the live bookmarks facility to pick up the RSS feeds from blogs.
23 Sep 2004, 21:34
nice, loving it.
23 Sep 2004, 21:50
Cool idea. Works really well.
23 Sep 2004, 22:26
Thanks alot John. I was never familiar with this feature of firefox.
23 Sep 2004, 22:52
Ah, yes! It's so obvious when you think about it.
23 Sep 2004, 23:58
James Taylor
Superb.
Good old Firefox! :)
24 Sep 2004, 13:19
Thanks so much for that. I'm a big Firefox fan and find that so many of the features save so much time.
30 Sep 2004, 23:32
Wow!
I have just found this, and i thank you so much!
08 Jun 2005, 13:05
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