That's what Firefox' awesome searchbar does. There I just input "jira $projectname" and I get the correct URL. If this does not work, I simply bookmark the page and give it tags. Then entering the tags in the search bar gives the same result.
A quick look around https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP... suggests that it’s not possible to control the keywords and tags from an extension in Firefox; this is a sad omission: I’d really like an extension which imported all of DuckDuckGo’s !bangs as bookmarks with keywords, so that you could type in exactly the same stuff and have it bypass duckduckgo.com.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1276817 is about adding that, but weird stuff is happening there. I’m going to follow it up, because I’d hate to see this functionality lost. I use it for a number of things.
Please do go ahead and make this. It’ll save me the trouble of doing it! I was figuring on just generating a NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file from the JSON and importing it manually.
I have no idea why they made bookmarks so much more difficult to work with and I'm not sure when it happened - as I updated from FF39 to FF60. Using Quantum for the last few weeks - I'm pretty sure I'll be going back to FF39 as it's simply more usable. Especially since add-ons that were a large part of my workflow actually work (or even exist at all...)
I wish :contains() had stayed in CSS Selectors Level 3, or that you could use XPath in stylesheets.
Hmm… #contentAreaContextMenu actually looks pretty sane. They all have IDs, which I really should have expected anyway. I’m going to add some rules to my own userChrome.css. Thanks for the idea!
I'm writing an extension that autosuggests tags based on page content.
One feature I can see myself using is grouping related tags and autofilling them. Like if I have the tags python, programming, and language grouped together it should autofill the programming and language tags when I enter python as a tag.
But yeah, FF tags work great.
The original idea was to...
1. Make it very easy to remember links - use words that are meaningful to you, not long URLs. 2. Allow storing of deep web links - a large amount of internal content is not indexed by the corporate search engine and the stuff that is out of date. 3. Allow others to update the keywords - the people in the business are an untapped network of knowledge, all it takes is one person to update a keyword and everyone benefits.
As we've developed the product we realised that it was beneficial to individuals too as a really interesting way of navigating their web.
Pocket is more about stashing things to read later and maybe sharing some resources. Gurn is about helping you navigate the web quickly and intuitively - and harnessing the collective knowledge in your group, team, company.
And to go a step further: pinboard will crawl and index bookmarked pages if you pay a bit more, so you can search within page contents. I've almost stopped tagging things because I can get close enough just by searching for a keyword or two. Only real downside I encounter is that I can't search pages that are behind a login.
i guess other browsers don't support tags in bookmarks.