Keyboard shortcuts for your favorite sites
There’s now a quicker way to reach you favorite sites. ShortcutKey2URL, a Firefox extension developed by onozaty, lets you define a key you can press to access a site. It’s not a direct shortcut though: you need to press Ctrl + Q or other customizable shortcut before entering the site key or keys.
For added flexibility, SK2URL can open the wanted site in a new tab, reuse the current one, or switch to a tab currently open in the same page.
Strangely, it adds an icon to the location bar which I found to be distracting and unnecessary.
While SK2URL’s functionality can be replicated to some degree using bookmark keywords from the location bar, its ability to do so without clutering your bookmarks folders could be of great help for some users.
ShortcutKey2URL is available at Mozilla Add-ons.
Comments
Travis
I agree, having the shortcut icon seems odd since the purpose of the add-on is to use a shortcut key, so why would someone want to click an icon?
Nox
It’s there so you can easily add a new shortcut, no?
I find the Awesomebar to be fast enough.
ShortcutKey2URL Gets You to Any Site by Keyboard [Downloads] | The tech blog
[...] ShortcutKey2URL offers just a single option dialog, where you give a frequently-visited site a single letter shortcut, name it, and then provide the URL. You can pre-set this shortcut to open in your existing tab, in a new one, or search to see if it’s already open in another tab, then open as a refresh in that one. You activate all of your one-letter shortcuts by first hitting your activation combo, which is Ctrl+Q by default, but can easily be changed. You can also register any site you visit as a ShortcutKey by hitting the gray arrow in your address bar—but, in a bad design move, that arrow never goes away. If peripheral clutter doesn’t drive you nuts, though, this could be a really helpful keyboard enabler. ShortcutKey2URL is a free download, works wherever Firefox does. ShortcutKey2URL [Firefox Add-ons via Mozilla Links] [...]
Howard
There’s also the SiteLauncher addon which adds keyboard shortcuts to your favourite sites.
http://www.donesmart.com/sitelauncher/
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