Hi everyone,

So I have created a “sublemmy” add-on for lemmy.ml that lets you quickly jump to a community from the address bar in FireFox. Just type ‘c firefox’, for example, and it will go there and sort the community by new. Useful if you have a few communities you want to check regularly and quickly from any new browser window.

The one caveat is that this tool only works for the website lemmy.ml because that is the site hardwired into the search string, alas. Not sure if there is a way around that (that would maybe take 2 arguments instead of one?) but that’s where it’s at for now.

Link is included if anyone wants to use it!

  • ewe@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    You can do this for any instance without an extension with a custom search engine (on chrome) or bookmark keyword (on firefox)

    Firefox:

    1. Create bookmark and add a keyword of “c” and replace the sublemmy name with “%s” in the url.

    1. In url bar, type “c”, then space, then the sublemmy name and enter -> goes to sublemmy

    Chrome:

    1. Go to settings and find the search engines, select “Add”

    1. Define like this and replace the sublemmy name with “%s” in the url.

    1. From the omnibar, type “c” then space or tab, then the sublemmy, then enter -> goes to sublemmy

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      2 years ago

      Holy crap! TIL! And when did they add this? When I switched from Chrome back to FF years ago, I couldn’t find any way to make that happen!