A few days ago, we published a post about how you can quickly access websites using keywords in Firefox and Chrome. It’s a useful tip that can help you speed up browsing and bookmarking.
The only problem is that doing it involves 3 steps in both Firefox and Chrome. In Firefox you have to go to the bookmarks library, then search for bookmarks, then add keywords. Whereas in Chrome you have to edit the search engine, then add a new search engine and the corresponding keyword for that site.
Frencheso, one of our readers, came up with a neat solution in the comments that solves the problem in Firefox. He shared some steps that can help the Keywords option appear when you click the star icon in Firefox’s address bar.
Let’s see how we can do this.
Step 1. First, you need to access your Firefox profile folder. Windows users can type %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles in the start menu. For Mac and Linux users, here’s a guide.
Step 2. Here you will find the profile folder, the folder is called something.default. If there’s more than one of them, it means you’re using multiple Firefox profiles, and if you’re doing that, I assume you’re savvy enough to know which is your default profile (or the one you use most of the time).
As you can see above, my profile user id is cajaom2l. Yeah, weird name I know. You will have something similar.
Step 3. Double click on the profile folder and you will see a folder named chrome.
Step 4. Once inside the chrome folder, you will find a file named userChrome-example.css. Now it could also just be userChrome.css. Either way, we need to edit this file with a simple text editor like Notepad (or one of the better notepad alternatives). If by chance you don’t see this file there, don’t worry, just read on.
Step 5. Copy and paste the following code and add it to the end of the file. Then save it.
#editBMPanel_locationRow,#editBMPanel_keywordRow{visibility: visible !important;-moz-box-align: center !important;}#editBMPanel_tagsSelector[collapsed=”true”]{show: no !important;}
You need to make sure that you change name file saved as userChrome.css if it’s userChrome-example.css. If it is already the previous one, you can simply save it.
Now what if you don’t find userChrome.css or userChrome-example.css inside chrome folder? Yes, you can always create it. But first make sure you are in the correct directory. Once you’ve done that and you don’t see any of those two files, just open notepad and copy and paste the following code, and then save it as userChrome.css. You will find that there is only one extra line at the beginning that needs to be added to the previous code.
@namespace url(“http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul”); /* set default namespace to XUL */#editBMPanel_locationRow,#editBMPanel_keywordRow{visibility: visible !important;-moz-box-align: center !important;}#editBMPanel_tagsSelector[collapsed=”true”]{show: no !important;}
Step 6. Restart Firefox. And that’s it. Now you will find the Keyword option when you tap that star icon in the address bar.
So that’s the neat trick I wanted to share. This is definitely a time saver, especially if you have several websites on your daily visit list. (Hope we are one of them????)
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