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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<title>Firefox keyword search: bookmark method - anthesis</title>
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"Use Firefox keyword search to increase online privacy and save time.
Learn how to query your favorite websites from the address bar."
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<ul>
<li><a href="/" hreflang="en">Home</a></li>
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<h1 id="firefox-keywords">Firefox keyword search: bookmark method</h1>
<article>
<p>
Last updated: <time datetime="2023-05-03">May 3rd, 2023</time>
</p>
<section>
<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
<p>
Many people use a search engine to navigate the
Internet, but not everyone knows about Firefox
keyword search (the process of assigning
keywords to bookmarks so that you can query
virtually any site with
ease).<sup id="fnref1"><a href="#fn1" rel="footnote">note 1</a></sup>
Read on to learn why this is important and how
to set it up.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2 id="why-use-keywords">Why use bookmark keywords?</h2>
<p>
For a number of reasons, “smart
keywords” (I guess that’s what Mozilla
calls them) can be a very useful tool for you.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<em>Better online privacy</em>. Only query and send data
to the site you want answers from, right?
</li>
<li>
<em>They save time</em>. Once you set them up,
you can effortlessly search your favorite
websites from the address bar.
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h2 id="wiktionary-example">Defining a keyword for Wiktionary</h2>
<p>
Let’s use
<a
href="https://www.wiktionary.org/"
hreflang="en"
>Wiktionary, the multilingual dictionary</a>
as an example.
</p>
<p>
Open up Firefox and navigate to www.wiktionary.org.
Right click Wiktionary’s search bar to pull up
a context menu with a number of entries. Left click
the “Add a Keyword for this
Search…” entry.
</p>
<picture>
<source
srcset="/images/add-keyword-1.e909ba9f910966a19a70b462f5f8b454ca787a64be8e26ebc245a3c773328c5c.2.webp"
type="image/webp"
/>
<img
src="/images/add-keyword-1.eaf5c6be649c4675eb34e426d68373beb9310bbccd8cf3a8547717c1f9d1e99e.2.png"
alt=
"Inside a context menu, the “Add a Keyword
for this Search…” entry is
highlighted."
decoding="async"
height="370"
width="358"
/>
</picture>
<p>
Firefox will now present a dialog box with three options.
</p>
<ol>
<li>
The <em>name</em> of the bookmark.
</li>
<li>
The <em>location</em> to save the bookmark in.
</li>
<li>
The <em>keyword</em> to use for the bookmark.
</li>
</ol>
<p>
Choose a name and location if you like. Then, type
in your desired keyword and click “Save”
to add it. I chose <kbd>wkt</kbd>.
</p>
<picture>
<source
srcset="/images/add-keyword-2.3d234f209c3fe0a23e66f317b04a8fe7ea8775ab51891f31606c6449b53876dc.2.webp"
type="image/webp"
/>
<img
src="/images/add-keyword-2.1ec0e0e718ca7a14def4adfe3ef4fe322fc8ecb74abc5b7819cff5a221632a40.2.png"
alt=
"A dialog box that asks for the name of the
bookmark, the folder to save it in, and the
keyword."
decoding="async"
height="414"
width="828"
/>
</picture>
<section>
<h3 id="testing-it-out">Test it out: search Wiktionary for definitions</h3>
<p>
Now you can use keyword search to find the
definition of a word by typing <kbd>wkt</kbd> (or
whatever you chose) into Firefox’s address
bar, followed by the word you want to know the
meaning of.
</p>
<p>
Here’s an exercise: what’s the
difference between “somnambulism” and
“funambulism?”
</p>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<h2 id="what-else-is-possible">What else is possible?</h3>
<p>
You can modify your regular bookmarks in the same
way to navigate to any site in a couple of
keystrokes. Note that because there’s no query
to make, you only type in the keyword itself.
</p>
</section>
<aside class="footnotes">
<hr>
<ol>
<li id="fn1">
<p>
Pretty much anything based on Firefox can add
keywords to bookmarks as well. This includes Tor
Browser.
<a href="#fnref1" rel="footnote-reference"
>↩ (go back)</a>
</p>
</li>
</ol>
</aside>
</article>
</main>
</body>
</html>