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This feature provides an easy way to go to your bookmark, hotlist or favorite webpages and search the web from the URL Bar. To use this feature with the favorites plugin, download the web accessories add-on for Internet Explorer located here.


Nicknames for bookmarks

Known to Mozilla users as keywords, K-Meleon uses the "Nick:" field in the Edit Bookmarks/Hotlist window to store a nickname for each of your bookmarks. This allows you to quickly go to the bookmark by typing its nickname in the URL Bar. For example: km can be the nickname for the bookmark link to the K-Meleon home page which is http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net. Now all you have to do is type km in the URL Bar and hit the enter key to go to the K-Meleon Home page.


Folder Groups

K-Meleon also allows nicknames for the folders in your bookmarks and hotlist. This provides a quick way for you to open all the bookmarks in a particular folder by typing the folder nickname in the URL bar and pressing the enter key.


Quick Search

Similarly, the Quick Search function allows you to use the "Nick:" field to store nicknames for search engines that you've saved as bookmarks with "%s" within the address in place of the word or term you want to search for. For example:

Google's search address is: http://www.google.com/search?q=

Google's search address for the word mozilla is: http://www.google.com/search?q=mozilla

So Google's QuickSearch bookmark address is: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

If you make g its nickname, all you'd have to do to search Google for the word mozilla is type:
g mozilla in the URL Bar and hit the enter key.

K-Meleon also has a unique feature which allows these Quick Search bookmarks to function as search prompts when clicking on them from the bookmarks menu. Using them as search prompts doesn't require you to assign them nicknames and you just type the word or phrase you want to search for into the prompt's entry field exactly like you would in the toolbar's search prompt.

The following is a list of additional search engines with example nicknames that you can add to your Quick Search bookmarks collection:


A9 Nick: a9
http://a9.com/%s

Acronym Finder Nick: ac
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Find=Find&Acronym=%s

Almanac Nick: al
http://www.infoplease.com/search.php3&in=all?query=%s

AltaVista Nick: av
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=%s

Amazon.com Nick: a
This URL is very long. Right-Click to add the link to your bookmarks

Astalavista Nick: alv
http://astalavista.box.sk/cgi-bin/robot?srch=%s

Dictionary.com Search Nick: d
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=%s

Dogpile Nick: dp
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web/%s

Ebay Nick: e
http://search.ebay.com/%s

Encyclopedia Nick: en
http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchpool.asp?target=%s

Find Target Meta-Search Nick: ft
http://search.findtarget.com/search.php?_p=100&_s=1&q=%s

Fotex (stock photography database) Nick: f
http://db.fotex.de/webgate31/index.php?SEARCHMODE=NEW&SEARCHTXT1=%s

Google 100 Nick: g100
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%s

Google Groups Search Nick: gg
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s

Google I feel lucky (takes you to the best result) Nick: l
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=%s

Google Images Search Nick: i
http://images.google.com/images?q=%s

Google News Search Nick: n
http://news.google.com/news?q=%s

Internet Movie Database Nick: imd
http://www.imdb.com/find?%s

K-Meleon Forums Search Nick: k
This URL is very long. Right-Click to add the link to your bookmarks

Lycos Nick: ly
http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?lpv=1&loc=searchhp&tab=web&query=%s

Merriam-Webster Search Nick: mw
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?%s

MetaCrawler Nick: mc
http://www.metacrawler.com/info.metac/search/web/%s

Meta Eureka Nick: me
http://www.metaeureka.com/cgi-bin/nph-metaeureka.pl?where=worldweb&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Search&terms=%s

Teoma Nick: t
http://s.teoma.com/search?u=100&q=%s

UPS Tracking Search Nick: u
This URL is very long. Right-Click to add the link to your bookmarks

Vivisimo Meta-Search Nick: v
http://vivisimo.com/search?query=%s

Weather Underground Nick: wu
http://www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=%s

Wikipedia (English) Nick: w
http://en2.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?go=go&search=%s

Yahoo Nick: y
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%s

Yahoo Groups Search Nick: yg
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/%s

Yahoo Movies Search Nick: m
http://search.movies.yahoo.com/moviesintgsearch?search=all&p=%s

Yahoo Shopping Search Nick: sh
This URL is very long. Right-Click to add the link to your bookmarks


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