Gavin, 31 January 07
If you find mozilla and firefox boring. So be it. They’re major advances in the browser world, in open source software and in computing in general.
One of their underplayed features is the ability to have versatile bookmarks. Bookmarks (the equivalent of what IE calls favorites [sic]) can include javascript or RSS feeds. This effictively means they can be dynamically updated with actions or data dependant on content. For example a javascript bookmark can show the google backlinks to a page – an RSS live bookmark / livemark can display headlines from a news site (similar to how I have the BBC news displayed above).
Bookmarks can also be dependant on keywords. This can allow them to be based upon a search string – so the bookmark keyword ‘g nogwa’ will search using google for any pages mentioning nogwa. The bookmark keyword will for example turn ‘imdb Fight Club’ into a dynamic search of IMDB for reference to the film Fight Club.
My keywords are in this file which can be saved and imported into firefox. If you are boring and use an inferior browser don’t expect it to work. Have a look at the file to see some other examples of the power that can me made of keyword bookmarks.
