Posted by chris on Tue 7 Mar 2006 at 09:48
Firefox has a fairly useful bookmarking concept - quick searches. In the default 1.5 package under sid I see examples of this in the bookmarks Quick Searches folder.
But - if you add a bookmkark to firefox with the following properties:
Name: Debian Packages Location: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=%s&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all Keyword: deb
You can now type in the firefox address bar e.g.
deb gnump3d
and you'll go straight to the package page for gnump3d.
Some others:
Search debian-administration with "da searchstring"
Name: Debian Administration Search Location: http://www.debian-administration.org/?search=%s Keyword: da
Go to an article on debian-administration with "daid articleid"
Name: Debian Administration Article Location: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/%s Keyword: daid
Other browsers may have similar functionality - if you know then why not add it here ?
This article can be found online at the Debian Administration website at the following bookmarkable URL:
This article is copyright 2006 chris - please ask for permission to republish or translate.