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Firefox Tip: Launch Your Bookmarks


Following up on my “Stop Mousing Around” article, I present a mouseless way of loading bookmarks.

The key is to use Launchy. There have already been Gearfire posts outlining how to use Launchy to search your documents and launch your applications.

Launchy also includes a built-in plugin called “Foxy” which indexes your Firefox bookmarks. Just make sure it’s checked (usually it’s by default) like in the image below.

Launchy's Firefox Bookmark plugin

Now you just press the standard Alt+Tab (configurable to anything you want) and start typing in the name of the bookmark. Gearfire is always a good choice.

This can be really useful for anyone who has a ton of bookmarks, but can’t find where they saved them. You no longer need to “organize” your bookmarks, just Launch them.

Launchy launching Gearfire

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  1. Geoff R. said

    am October 16 2007 @ 10:46 pm

    Chris,

    Is there any way to use a search website through launchy?

    For example, in french class I would like to type in launchy “enfr” and then the word i want to translate from english to french via Wordreference.com.

    Any way to do this?

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Gearfire was created in January of 2007 by Geoff R and Jordan S. Gearfire deals with personal productivity, organization, and Getting Things done from a student's perspective. Gearfire is written entirely by students, and is written towards students, but is usually applicable to a general audience. Our other writers are Daniel and Chris, whom have joined us over the past year.