Closed Bug 216764 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Wanted: Bookmarks w/text input/substitution in URL (Galeon style "smart" bookmarks.)

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

x86
Linux
enhancement
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205274

People

(Reporter: toralf, Assigned: p_ch)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 A feature I'd really like to see, is what is known as "Smart bookmarks" in Galeon. Smart bookmarks are small text-input areas in the toolbar which are tied to URLs of the form <protocol>://<head>%s<tail> i.e for instance http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?searchword=%s for my dictionary-lookup field. When entering a text into the field, then hitting Enter, the URL is called with the text substituted for "%s" - so if I enter "bookmark" for the above example, http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?searchword=bookmark is opened. The bookmark thus emulates the dictionary lookup form on http://dictionary.cambridge.org. I'm not very happy with Galeon these days, but I'm addicted to this feature, so I won't switch browsers until a different one has it... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
between bookmark keywords and the search bar, we don't need a third custom search option in Firebird *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205274 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Sorry, I never noticed NeedleSearch, which is not exectly the same thing, but might be a decent substitute. If it would only work, that is, the current version doesn't actually do anything, as far as I can tell. I find the keyword mechanism a bit awkward to use, mainly because you have to delete the URL all the time.
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
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