The one thing I absolutely love about Firefox is how easily you can browse with only your keyboard.
There is a feature called "bookmark keywords" that assigns certain words to bookmarks in your bookmark list. This feature also allows you to pass arguments to the bookmark. For example, by default, Firefox has "google" as a keyword for standard-, and "goto" for I-Fell-Lucky search on google.
For example, if I were to want to look up the page that explains bookmark keywording while I'm typing this post, instead of reaching for my mouse, I can simply alt+D to select the address bar, type in "google firefox bookmark keyword", alt+enter to open up the results in a new tab, use search-link-as-you-type to browse to a good match, alt+D then ctrl+C to copy the link, close the new tab with ctrl+W, and I'm right back in this page again. I had to manually select this textbox with the mouse, but still sure saved me a lot of clicking. It seems like a lot of things to remember, but once you get used to it, it's almost second nature. In fact, I have problems using the browsers installed at school since I can't use all the keyboard features I usually do.
(Although the above sequence is most convinient, I often end up opening the tab manually due to an annoyance caused by a known bug. Also, occasionally websites will reserve alt+d for accessing fields, like dictionary.com, in which case F6 can be used instead.)
Oh, by the way, the page I ended up browsing to was this. It's not from the official sites, but explains the process of adding keywords very well.
Currently, I have keywords to do google, wikipedia, dictionary, acronym, and a few other searches. I also have keywrods that opens me up to a few of my favorite sites, including this forum.
Have fun with Firefox. :)
There is a feature called "bookmark keywords" that assigns certain words to bookmarks in your bookmark list. This feature also allows you to pass arguments to the bookmark. For example, by default, Firefox has "google" as a keyword for standard-, and "goto" for I-Fell-Lucky search on google.
For example, if I were to want to look up the page that explains bookmark keywording while I'm typing this post, instead of reaching for my mouse, I can simply alt+D to select the address bar, type in "google firefox bookmark keyword", alt+enter to open up the results in a new tab, use search-link-as-you-type to browse to a good match, alt+D then ctrl+C to copy the link, close the new tab with ctrl+W, and I'm right back in this page again. I had to manually select this textbox with the mouse, but still sure saved me a lot of clicking. It seems like a lot of things to remember, but once you get used to it, it's almost second nature. In fact, I have problems using the browsers installed at school since I can't use all the keyboard features I usually do.
(Although the above sequence is most convinient, I often end up opening the tab manually due to an annoyance caused by a known bug. Also, occasionally websites will reserve alt+d for accessing fields, like dictionary.com, in which case F6 can be used instead.)
Oh, by the way, the page I ended up browsing to was this. It's not from the official sites, but explains the process of adding keywords very well.
Currently, I have keywords to do google, wikipedia, dictionary, acronym, and a few other searches. I also have keywrods that opens me up to a few of my favorite sites, including this forum.
Have fun with Firefox. :)