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Authored by: pascalpp on Dec 02, '02 03:57:10PM

i used to use shadowGoogle a lot. then i realized that quickeys has the ability to open a preset URL with a keystroke. so now i just press control-G in any app and Chimera comes forward with a new tab containing the Google search page, with the Google search field already focused. on my DSL connection, that page loads in the same amount of time it would take me to move the mouse and click on shadowGoogle. (it's difficult to time it, but i'd say it's about half a second; feels pretty much instantaneous.)

of course this doesn't give me access to multiple search sites like dictionary.com or what have you, which Searchling and other tools provide, but if you need that functionality you could assign other keys to those URLs, or you could even create a quickeys toolbar with buttons for each site you need.



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