Comments on: Keyboard shortcuts for your favorite sites

By: ShortcutKey2URL Gets You to Any Site by Keyboard [Downloads] | The tech blog

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:57:26 +0000

[...] 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] [...]

By: Nox

Nox — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:49:21 +0000

It’s there so you can easily add a new shortcut, no?
I find the Awesomebar to be fast enough.

By: Shriram R

Shriram R — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:00:48 +0000

I am just wondering whether such an addon is required where one can achieve the functionality (via keyboard) writing a small nifty script in Ubiquity.
What do you reckon ?

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:55:47 +0000

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?

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:51:22 +0000

There’s also the SiteLauncher addon which adds keyboard shortcuts to your favourite sites.

http://www.donesmart.com/sitelauncher/