Posts Tagged ‘firefox’

Better Keyword Search for Wikipedia in Firefox

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

If you’re not aware of the “Add Keyword for this Search” try going to google and right-click on the search box, and click “Add Keyword for this Search” and just put a keyword as “test” for now. Now, hit ctrl+l (or cmd+l on a Mac) and enter “test election” and it will take you to a search page as if you searched google for “election.” Basically, you can do this with any search box. It’s really great, actually. I much prefer this method to the search box because I only like using one hotkey.

Anyways, since I frequent Wikipedia a lot, I have one set up for Wikipedia. Unfortunately, Wikipedia isn’t all that good at catching your typos or knowing where you really want to go like Google does.

Solution: Set up a quicksearch to use google’s are you feeling lucky to search wikipedia.org. Here’s how you do it:

  • Go to Bookmarks->Organize Bookmarks
  • Create new bookmark
  • Add a name and appropriate keyword (I chose “wiki” for mine)
  • For the location use:
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awikipedia.org+%s&btnI=745

I found a nice little tip on what to add to the search to “feel lucky”.

Color Problems Solved

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

I re-exported my files as JPEGs with sRGB ICC profiles embedded. Everything worked fine in FF and IE, but in Safari it was still broken. I think that Apple would have Safari handle colors properly.

I did some investigation and here’s what I found out. Firefox is NOT color managed (rumor has it that in 3.0 it will be). I was able to get hex colors in the page such as backgrounds and fonts match the hex colors in my image by turning ALL of the ICC color management off and not embedding it.

What a pain. Turns out that no color management is the most consistent. I’m still confused why the colors on the page weren’t the same as the ones in the image when the image had an sRGB profile embedded in it, and web colors by default are supposed to be in sRGB color space.

*grumble*