Firefox bookmark keywords for faster navigation

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2024-05-17 15:00:08

Not sure how many folks are aware of this, but Firefox lets you create “keywords” for bookmarks which can be used to directly navigate to a page. For example, if you often go into GitHub notifications page, you can create a bookmark for it and add a short keyword. I personally use gn as the keyword.

With this, whenever I want to go to GitHub navigations page, I would do ctrl+t > gn > enter. Very easy to remember and after you use it for a while, it becomes second nature.

This on its own is pretty neat and I have a lot of such bookmarks with keywords, but one very powerful usecase I have this is for GitHub repos, ie link all the pages within a repo that you visit with a common prefix. Let me show you an example for NixOS/nixpkgs repo. I use nip as the common prefix for nixpkgs.

... and more, but you get the idea. Adding this manually can get a bit tiring, but is totally worth it if you were to ask me. I do however add these via nix which makes it a lot easier.