Question

So, I am not a fan of using Mouse unless something cant be done with the keyboard through shortcuts.

My internet explorer is made to search in Google when keywords are typed in the Address bar. Is there any setting I could in the browser that would let me type a bookmark name(autocomplete would be great) and the page loads.

If not, any browser plugins to rescue?

I can try this but just want to make sure before i start doing so: Can javascript bookmarklet be written to have such a dictionary of [bookmarkname] - [url] built from the browsers bookmark list. Then it should be easy enough to navigate to that bookmarklet from keyboard and then type my bookmark name and javascript in the bookmarklet redirects me away to the URL?

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Solution

No need for a plugin.

Hit Alt-A and then just start typing the name of your bookmark. The menu selection should follow what you've typed. if your bookmark is in a subfolder in the bookmarks menu, you can use -> and <- to navigate in/out of those subfolders. Hit Enter when you're on the bookmark you want, and it'll load up.


as it turns out, IE9's address bar is now copying FF's awesome bar and will search the bookmarks, so an Alt-D followed by the name of a bookmark will show bookmarks in the search results under the bar.

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