[yan]

It's cool as a programming exercise, but I just can't see it being useful for me. If it can do something else, that might be cool, but it can't do much. ^k and dictionary bookmarks in firefox are far superior to using that shell.

Dictionary bookmarks, for all those unaware, are a beautiful feature I rarely hear about. For example, go to en.wikipedia.org and right click inside the search text box on the left. Click on 'Add a keyword for this search.' For name, put anything, for keyword i have 'w'. Now, whenever you are in the address bar (ctrl+l or alt+d to get there in windows/linux, apple+l in os x) you just type 'w plants' to get the wikipedia page on plants.

Go and try it, type ctrl+l, 'w firefox', enter. I almost can't live without it. And the same works for anything else, so google news can be 'gn', google images: 'gi', etc thus making that more useful goosh. goosh doesn't even have any of the features you'd want from a *nix shell like redirection.

[d0mine]

Firefox's Awesome Keywords are.. hmm.. awesome, but what if you need:

* a synchronization between different computers (the same keywords on different computers)

* to use other browser

* two or more parameters, e.g. to find Google Sets for "cat, and man"

* to combine multiple queries, e.g. to search for "hacker news" on Google and Yahoo

YubNub's examples:

  $ gset  man, cat 

http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=gset%20man%2C%20cat

  $ ms2 hacker news; g y

http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=ms2%20hacker%20news%3...

[mcxx]

Yeah, the dictionary bookmarks is probably the most hidden feature of FF, despite it saves time and is something each browser should have. I've stumbled upon it just recently, but I'm using it heavily every day since...

[LogicHoleFlaw]

Ok, that is amazingly useful. I just added keywords for my most-used searches (generally special-purpose wikis). Way cool.