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Top 10 Firefox search engines
Quickly, tell me the web browser you use most frequently.
What? Do I hear anything other than Firefox? You’re most certainly way behind on our Productivity 101 lesson.
Quickly, tell me what’s your most frequent way to google or search stuff online.
If you tell me you click on Firefox’s address bar, type www.google.com then Enter, then you’re definitely not making good use of your time and fingers. There’s a better, faster, easier way to google from Firefox - the quicksearch field on the right-top corner. Just type Ctrl+K (or, on Mac, Cmd+K) and you’ve changed focus to the quicksearch field. Type what u want to search for, Enter, and Google opens up with the results.
Forget the Apple Terminal, now you have Quicksilver
Remember I promised I’d show you how to do your basic computer stuff from within Quicksilver? Well, it took me a while but I finally pulled myself together and wrote this tutorial - a beginner’s guide on doing all kinds of nice and useful stuff with Quicksilver.
What is Quicksilver, you ask? I dare you ask this again after reading my articles on Application Launchers - the ultimate geek Power Tools
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