Didier's Blog

In Firefox, you can associate keywords to your Bookmarks.
For example, you can associate the keyword otn to the main page of JDeveloper on OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/index.html
by filling in the Keyword field in the bookmark's Properties:



Typing otn in the Location bar (that you can access quickly by pressing CTRL+L) will bring you to that page.

You can define various keywords, f.ex. to access your favorite blogs

Keyword	URL
Duncan	http://groundside.com/blog/DuncanMills.php
Frank	http://www.orablogs.com/fnimphius/
Steve	http://radio.weblogs.com/0118231/
Didier	http://blogs.oracle.com/Didier/
...	...

There are also some keywords defined by default as wp for Wikipedia - see the full list [Here]

But the most powerful is that your bookmark's URL can include parameters %s
They will be replaced by the words you type in after the keyword.
For example wp JDeveloper will bring you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=JDeveloper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s with %s replaced by JDeveloper)

If you have a Metalink account you can define some useful keywords/bookmarks pairs like:

Keyword	URL
Note	https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=%s
Bug	https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/showdoc?db=Bug&id=%s
...	...

With these pairs defined on your bookmarks, typing Note 395980.1 in the Location bar, f.ex., will display the Metalink Note 395980.1 directly; and Bug 5615982 will bring you to that bug reference.


For more information about the Keywords in Firefox, see the following links:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches
• http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/List_of_keyword_searches