Tell HN: Mozilla is preparing to remove bookmark keywords

13 RheingoldRiver 1 5/22/2025, 7:13:09 PM

On Bugzilla there's an active ticket [0] tracking progress to remove bookmark keywords from Firefox, in order to consolidate them into Search. I think this is going to be disastrous for my workflow and I'm very worried about it, but I don't see much discussion of this anywhere, even though I do see a lot of discussion about bookmarklets. Since bookmarklets and keywords are so tightly related (bookmarklets are the code, and they keyword is how you run it from your URL bar), I want to spread the word that this feature might be going away.

I wrote a(nother) blog post about how cool bookmark keywords are and how I use them [1] and I'd love to hear other people's use cases for keywords

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1650874

[1] https://river.me/blog/bookmark-keywords-again/

Comments (1)

solardev · 1h ago

Ah, I use them all the time!

In Chrome, the search engines can also just act like a bookmark (if you leave out the %s it just goes to that URL).

Maybe Firefox can add that?

I don't know whether Firefox searches let you use JS URLs though...

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