Camino 1.5 was released today, a Mac OS X browser based on Gecko, the rendering engine behind Firefox and Mozilla. But unlike Firefox, Camino doesn’t feel like an alien on Mac OS X regarding visual appearance and features like access to the system’s Keychain to store passwords for instance.
One feature of Firefox which I couldn’t find in Camino’s feature list but as I just found out does work in Camino too are “search bookmarklets”. They work as follows:
E.g. for searching Wikipedia I save a bookmark with the location http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s and add the keyword wiki to it. Then I’m able to search Wikipedia by simply typing the word wiki followed by a blank and my search term into the address bar. %s stands as placeholder for the search term in the bookmark address. An easy and very convenient way to quickly access any available search site.
Another example: for quickly looking up a location in Google maps I assigned the keyword map to the bookmark http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s, so typing map mylocation into the address bar will return me a Google map showing mylocation.
In Firefox you can add a search bookmarklet for any searchfield you see on a website by a simple right click on the search field. Camino unfortunately doesn’t offer that, so I have to find the search parameters to create a valid search command for a specific website. Maybe it’s an upcoming feature of Camino.
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