LiveJournal shortcut in your browser's search box

[kou]

Tired of typing ".livejournal.com" into your browser's address bar to open a journal?

I've written an XML file which allows you to use the browser's search box as a LiveJournal shortcut. Once installed, you can type only a journal name - "news" for example - into the search box to visit the journal.

Comments

[rosathome]

If you check journals by name and use Firefox, it's much quicker just to use their magic address bar. I never type more than one or two letters before the url I'm looking for comes up.

[stagknight]

Ditto Opera and Chrome. Probably the newest version of IE, too.

And even if not, it's still probably quicker to use a Quick Search in Firefox and the equivalent thing in Opera.

As far as I'm concerned, the ordinary search box is only for Google.

[pne]

It could come in handy for Wikipedia, too -- though I use a custom search with keyword for that ("en blabla" for info from the English Wikipedia on 'blabla').

[mordyn4]

And in Safari with the SafariStand plugin.

OP: That said, this is still a cool way to do it. Thanks for posing this. If I hadn't found the quick search feature for the address bar, I would have rather used the search box for LJ redirects.

[necrotica]

Thank you SO much!

[magicalobizuth]

While the awesome bar is awesome, this is really nifty for journals that I haven't visited in a long time or ever.

[dreamt]

my initial reaction: "Man, how lazy can you get?" and then, "Gief!"

So yeah, thank you, this is going to come in super handy :)

[akaleia]

awesome