firefox autocomplete
Using Firefox's shortcut bookmark access system in combination with the Autocomplete Manager plugin can be quite tricky. It took me a moment to figure out a good way of handling it.
- Extras > Autocomplete Manager
- Autocomplete component in use: √ custom
- Suggestion Selection: √ Include bookmark addresses
- Suggestion Popup: √ Complete best match inline
This configures the autocomplete the way Safari handles it. But now the inline complete behaviour interferes with the shortcuts (sd, w) we are using, as it adds "http://www." in front of your shortcut. This can be avoided by: either typing very fast, which is not really realiable. Or rather beginning your shortcuts with a letter / symbol which is never first in an url – such as a hyphen.
You configure your bookmark keywords all with a hyphen in front, and it works great:
- w –> http://www.what-ever-website-autocompleted.com
- -w –> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s
- -w Firefox –> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox
