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
Comments (6)
Thank you so much for this trick! Very neat
Posted by Laurent Schneider | December 7, 2006 4:47 AM
Posted on December 7, 2006 04:47
Merci Laurent :)
Posted by Didier Laurent | December 7, 2006 5:01 AM
Posted on December 7, 2006 05:01
name : metalink search
location : https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_gui.handleSearchRequest?p_text=%s&p_search=Submit
keyword : m
the %s let you can type
m _pga_max_size
in your location bar to search for _pga_max_size in metalink ;-)
Posted by Laurent Schneider | December 7, 2006 11:28 AM
Posted on December 7, 2006 11:28
Patch: http://updates.oracle.com/download/%s.html where %s is the patch number
Posted by Didier Laurent | December 8, 2006 4:43 AM
Posted on December 8, 2006 04:43
Hi didier,
thank you for this smart trick. I hope this system, Oracle has implemented, doesn't leave doors open for an SQL injection ;-)
Posted by John Galanopoulos | December 9, 2006 8:11 AM
Posted on December 9, 2006 08:11
Great information...They will help me a lot ..
Thanks..
Posted by TimuM | July 20, 2007 10:26 PM
Posted on July 20, 2007 22:26