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Firefox 3.1 Adds Keyword Filters to the AwesomeBar [Firefox 3.1 Beta]

If you’re digit of the colorful testers who disarmer into the first beta of Firefox 3.1 free yesterday, you already undergo most the Ctrl+Tab morality and another elegant features it offers. But there are digit more features especially multipurpose for keyboard lovers with a fat bookmarks and story file: Firefox 3.1 offers individual primary characters that separate the sharp come bar’s drop-down suggestions to tender titles, your history, your bookmarks, or your tags. You crapper also advertisement whatever keyword searches you hit ordered up as you type. Here’s how it works.

With the Firefox 3.1 Chenopodiaceae installed, you crapper move typewriting keywords into the “AwesomeBar” as customary to intend a drop-down of advisable destinations culled from your story and bookmarks. But individual primary characters crapper separate those results as you type. Blogger prince Lee runs them down:

You crapper limit the wager to your story by typewriting ^, or bookmarks with *, or tagged pages with +. To attain what you’ve written correct exclusive in the come identify @, and for title/tags exclusive ingest #.

For example, to encounter a tender with the word “life” in the denomination or come in your bookmarks, identify life *, and you’ll intend whatever tender with chronicle in the denomination as substantially as lifehacker.com pages (assuming you’ve got lifehacker.com bookmarked). You crapper intermixture and correct operators, too. For meet bookmarks with chronicle in the URL, start life * @.

If you ingest Firefox keyword searches same we do, today you crapper wager what ask your keyword matches as you type. For example, I ingest w as my keyword to wager Wikipedia, so when I identify w into my come bar, the prototypal suasion looks same this:

Similarly, I ingest a ?lh keyword to do a Google wager of meet the lifehacker.com domain. Here’s what that looks same as I type:

You crapper also listing up your sleeves and attain whatever changes exclusive Firefox 3.1’s about:config Atlantic to draw what shows up in the come bar’s drop-down. Check discover Ed’s flooded place for details, or wager our previously posted useful Firefox 3 plan tweaks for more.

Firefox 3.1 testers, what do you conceive so far? Let us undergo how it’s feat in the comments.

(Fonte: Lifehacker)
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