QuickSearch by prateeknischal

An omnibox add-on to make templatize frequent URLs, searches and bookmarks as well!

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About this extension

Ever find yourself visiting a search engine (mostly in corporate settings), waiting for it to load and then type in the search term and wait again for the results or searching for something that you know exactly the URL for but don't like typing.

QuickSearch allows you to configure templates and bookmarks with corresponding keywords to quickly execute a template search or URL. It uses the omnibox APIs from the firefox browser and replaces your text totally offline. The extension lets you add any URL you like (with a limitation of a HTTP GET based workflow and only 1 template variable at the time).

Some examples for templates:

https://crates.io/crates/{{ library }}
https://docs.python.org/3/library/{{ package }}.html
https://internal.wiki.com/?q={{ search term }}

This addon can save that one second off your hyper-concentrated developer time when you are absorbed on working something.

Feel free to file issues/suggestions/PRs on the project repository prateeknischal/quicksearch

Rated 5 by 1 reviewer

Release notes for 0.2.1

For some use cases (bookmarking), the key does not require to have a
value which was considered as bad input until this PR. This PR adds the
ability to call a shortcut without a value. In this case the $TERM$ will
be replaced by an empty string.

Add @config key which will open the preferences page for the extension.

More details in https://github.com/prateeknischal/quicksearch/commit/87be0ad14cd2d4080146bdca731fa96b93e091e9