{"id":1782,"date":"2009-11-26T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2009-11-26T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T08:00:29","slug":"firefox-aliases-with-substitution-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/firefox-aliases-with-substitution-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox aliases with substitution strings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Screenshot-Properties-for-ODS-paa-nettet.png\" alt=\"Bookmark properties\" title=\"Bookmark properties\" width=\"50%\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1783\" \/>This is possibly really well known, but I haven&#8217;t seen it mentioned often, and I&#8217;ve forgotten how I learnt it.<\/p>\n<p>So I thought other might perhaps benefit from this.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, you might know that if you right-click on a bookmark in the <i>Bookmarks<\/i> menu, you can bring up <i>Properties<\/i> in a window.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Keyword<\/i> field there will allow you to go to that bookmark by writing this keyword in the address bar.  (That is, if you&#8217;ve made &#8220;widmann&#8221; the keyword for the bookmark for this blog, you can just type &#8220;widmann&#8221; in the address bar instead of &#8220;blog.widmann.org.uk&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>The interesting feature here is that you can use &#8216;%s&#8217; in the <i>Location<\/i> field, and this is then replaced by whatever you write after the keyword.<\/p>\n<p>That is, if you have created a bookmark and set the location to &#8220;http:\/\/ordnet.dk\/ods\/search?keyword=%s&#8221; and the keyword to &#8220;ods&#8221;, you can type &#8220;ods blog&#8221; in the address bar and this automagically expands to &#8220;http:\/\/ordnet.dk\/ods\/search?keyword=blog&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This can be really useful for dictionary-like sites such as Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is possibly really well known, but I haven&#8217;t seen it mentioned often, and I&#8217;ve forgotten how I learnt it. So I thought other might perhaps benefit from this. First of all, you might know that if you right-click on a bookmark in the Bookmarks menu, you can bring up Properties in a window. The Keyword field there will allow you to go to that bookmark by writing this keyword in the address bar. (That is, if you&#8217;ve made &#8220;widmann&#8221; the keyword for the bookmark for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}