277963 - The ability to add an alias for a URL

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[april levin]

Feature request:

The ability to add an alias for a URL.

This feature would have the ability to create URL aliases.  For example, I could
define a short string that would take me a much longer URL.

Like, if I typed in "cnn" into the URL address bar, it would take me directly to
whatever URL I associated with the alias, such as "http://www.cnn.com" 

Or, it could be configured so that I typed in, for example, "qtxp" it could take
me to "http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download?get_quicktime_xp&something_else"

- Going further: Searching -

You could even take this one step further:

If I typed "f sony handicam" into the address bar, I could have defined it so
that it could take me to
"http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%s&btnG=Search+Froogle&scoring=p", where %s
would be the query string that came after "f" in what i typed, in this case
"sony handicam"


Thanks!

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Your bug report title and content do not match, and you can already set up a
Keyword for bookmarks. Use the Bookmark Manager (or just right click) to modify
the Properties of a bookmark. Quick searchs work too.

--> RESOLVED/INVLAID

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Feature request:
> 
> The ability to add an alias for a URL.
> 
> This feature would have the ability to create URL aliases.  For example, I could
> define a short string that would take me a much longer URL.
> 
> Like, if I typed in "cnn" into the URL address bar, it would take me directly to
> whatever URL I associated with the alias, such as "http://www.cnn.com" 
> 
> Or, it could be configured so that I typed in, for example, "qtxp" it could take
> me to "http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download?get_quicktime_xp&something_else"
> 
it's called Keyword, rightclick on a bookmark->Properties
WFM


> - Going further: Searching -
> 
> You could even take this one step further:
> 
> If I typed "f sony handicam" into the address bar, I could have defined it so
> that it could take me to
> "http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%s&btnG=Search+Froogle&scoring=p", where %s
> would be the query string that came after "f" in what i typed, in this case
> "sony handicam"
> 
> 
> Thanks!
go to the input of froogle and rightclick "add a keyword for this search"

WFM

Comment 3

[april levin]

omg: you guys rock.  *sorry( for wasting your time and thanks!