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Smart Bookmarks are a special kind of bookmark that can take one or more arguments. By using Smart Bookmarks, web searches and queries can be performed without loading a query page first.
All of your Smart Bookmarks will appear in a dropdown menu if you enter some text in the address bar (Fig. 1). By selecting the Smart Bookmark, a query using the given text will be performed.
It is also possible to add a Smart Bookmark to a toolbar by selecting »Show in bookmarks bar« in the bookmark's property dialog. If you do so, you will see its name and a text box (Fig. 2). You can enter text into the box and press enter to perform the function of the Smart Bookmark.
Smart Bookmarks can be created by finding out what URI a site uses for searching, for example will start a Google query for .
To make this URI a Smart Bookmark, you have to follow three simple steps:
To add a Smart Bookmark from a web page to your personal bookmarks, like this one: Google, just right click on the link and choose »Bookmark Link...«.
If you ever want to add a Smart Bookmark to a web page, you might want to take a look at the html source of the above example:
<a type="text/smartbookmark" href="http://www.google.com/" rel="http://www.google.com/search?q=%s" title="Google">Google</a>
Example Smart Bookmark HTML source
An archive containing lots of Smart Bookmarks is available at the Galeon web site.
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