I agree that being able to type 'g search text' in the location bar is a useful thing. You can tweak Mozilla to do this, with about ten lines of javascript (in the navigator.js file in chrome/comm.jar). You can also get it to search e2 for you when you type 'e search text', or whatever. A particularly useful and fast tweak is to set it up so any text entered in the location bar which features a space character is automatically treated as search text, and searched for at Google.
Mozilla also lets you search for highlighted text via the context menu.
I think you summed up the problem very well. On that note, I would like to recommend the book "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn, to anyone who is concerned about our apparent plan of growing and growing and growing until we have sucked all the life out of this planet, and to anyone who is trying to work out just exactly what went wrong here.
See also the online essays at the Ishmael website:
http://www.ishmael.com/Education/Writings/
To remind you why they're a good (or important) thing it would be necessary for you to be able to see a little bit beyond the immediate problems of your circle of acquaintances/community/town. This is about whole nations of people being exploited for the purpose of making even more money for a very small number of people who are already fantastically rich. Open your eyes.
This might not be exactly what is meant by 'browser bindings' , but something that has always seemed to me to be missing from Netscape/Mozilla is the ability to define key bindings to do different things, i.e. open a particular boomark or run some javascipt function. As someone who prefers to keep their hands on the keyboard, I would find this very useful. Also, it would make the web browser more like.....EMACS. M-x praise-emacs!
Actually, why not make the entire browser LISP-extensible?
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I agree that being able to type 'g search text' in the location bar is a useful thing. You can tweak Mozilla to do this, with about ten lines of javascript (in the navigator.js file in chrome/comm.jar). You can also get it to search e2 for you when you type 'e search text', or whatever. A particularly useful and fast tweak is to set it up so any text entered in the location bar which features a space character is automatically treated as search text, and searched for at Google.
Mozilla also lets you search for highlighted text via the context menu.
Three cheers for highly configurable software!
M-x praise-emacs
I think you summed up the problem very well. On that note, I would like to recommend the book "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn, to anyone who is concerned about our apparent plan of growing and growing and growing until we have sucked all the life out of this planet, and to anyone who is trying to work out just exactly what went wrong here.
See also the online essays at the Ishmael website:
http://www.ishmael.com/Education/Writings/
To remind you why they're a good (or important) thing it would be necessary for you to be able to see a little bit beyond the immediate problems of your circle of acquaintances/community/town. This is about whole nations of people being exploited for the purpose of making even more money for a very small number of people who are already fantastically rich. Open your eyes.
This might not be exactly what is meant by 'browser bindings' , but something that has always seemed to me to be missing from Netscape/Mozilla is the ability to define key bindings to do different things, i.e. open a particular boomark or run some javascipt function. As someone who prefers to keep their hands on the keyboard, I would find this very useful. Also, it would make the web browser more like.....EMACS. M-x praise-emacs!
Actually, why not make the entire browser LISP-extensible?
etc etc..