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The Smart Bookmarks is evil simply because users can click it and would search "%s". To be sure, the UI is currently better than InternetSearch, but its customizability is still geek oriented. Though there's no need to remove it as it's useful indeed, we should improve the UI for searchbox nontheless. | The Smart Bookmarks is evil simply because users can click it and would search "%s". To be sure, the UI is currently better than InternetSearch, but its customizability is still geek oriented. Though there's no need to remove it as it's useful indeed, we should improve the UI for searchbox nontheless. | ||
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On Windows, the term "alias" is rarely if ever used, so I'd suggest calling them "shortcuts" on that platform, since that's Windows' analogy to the Mac's alias. Plus, on the Windows file properties dialog, there's a similar feature that lets you launch a file using a user-defined key combo – Windows calls that a "Shortcut key." – [[User:Minh Nguyen|Minh Nguyễn]] <small class="plainlinks">([[User talk:Minh Nguyen|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/Minh Nguyen|contribs]], [http://mxn.f2o.org/index.html blog])</small> 13:41, 4 Dec 2005 (PST) | |||
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Personally, I would prefer replacing the Search Plugins with Smart Bookmarks. There are quite a few extensions out there (ie. SmartSearch and Search Type B) that can be combined to completely replace the Search Plugins and they could be integrated to Firefox instead of having to write a lot of code.
The reason I prefer Smart Bookmarks is because they are quite a few users out there that are using this feature: We need to support them. The other reason is because the customization is already implemented. All we need to do is to rename the feature into Search Bookmarks and implemented a dialogue that is tailored towards that purpose (ie. instead of "Keyword" we can try "Nickname"). Lastly, there are a few other browsers with the same feature (ie. Epiphany) and it would be nice if we could import their Smart Bookmarks.
The Smart Bookmarks is evil simply because users can click it and would search "%s". To be sure, the UI is currently better than InternetSearch, but its customizability is still geek oriented. Though there's no need to remove it as it's useful indeed, we should improve the UI for searchbox nontheless. --Torisugari 03:13, 21 Oct 2005 (PDT)
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On Windows, the term "alias" is rarely if ever used, so I'd suggest calling them "shortcuts" on that platform, since that's Windows' analogy to the Mac's alias. Plus, on the Windows file properties dialog, there's a similar feature that lets you launch a file using a user-defined key combo – Windows calls that a "Shortcut key." – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs, blog) 13:41, 4 Dec 2005 (PST)