Sure. With Chrome you don't have to edit the registry. They expose the feature (deep, but still present) in the browser's UI: How to Set Keyword Bookmarks in Google Chrome[^] Firefox is even simpler. There's a link in that LifeHacker article for more info.

Specifically responding to your update: I wish it was that easy. I work at the customer service level of a financial business that recently implemented "build your own" style security questions. The form is as self-explanatory as can be... Password Reset Security Question {input element} Password Reset Answer {input element} This just confuses the hell out of users. I have to walk an average of one person per day through the process, and thoroughly explain that "here you can type out your own question, which will be shown to you when you request a password reset. Below, you put in the answer to that question." This is a basic concept to those of us who have experience in site development and high-level security concepts... but to the average user, it's mind boggling. In some cases, I even end up recommending that the user leaves those fields blank (in that case, they simply cannot self-initiate a password reset, and must call or come in to one of our offices. It's more work for us, but doesn't add a security risk). There are plenty of people who are far too impatient to even attempt to figure it out, and for them, I'm glad our situation has a workaround for the concept. This isn't to say that the concept needs reworking. Security questions as they are typically implemented are appallingly insecure, and depend on essentially public data. This is bad, and needs to be addressed by the industry at large. On that, we are completely agreed.

Eddy Vluggen wrote:

newton.saber wrote:

Wasn't there a google project for desktop search or something?

For DOS?

No, for Windows. OP stated that he uses the command line for search even in modern Windows environments. And yes, Google Desktop was a sadly shortlived piece of software that added a search field to the Windows taskbar and allowed users to search their files. It had its shortcomings (the indexer was pathetically slow, the index files were huge, and it was running off HDDs and so didn't have the in-memory speed advantages that Google gains on their servers), but as an alternative to the (then-current) Windows XP search tool, it was a major advancement. Then Microsoft went and made a halfway decent desktop search field in Vista, improved on it in 7, and again sped it up in 8. And OP probably hasn't given it a fair shot, because on a daily basis (using Windows 7) I experience none of the problems OP complained about.

In addition to the previous tips, I'll add my method of just typing a space before the URL. And of course, Chrome supports the same keyword-for-bookmarked-search-URL functionality as Firefox (right-click the address bar and "Edit search engines". One of the options in the dialog is to add a keyword)

Oh, I think Google knows how to handle recursion.

That 90% exists. Check out Ninite[^]

You're welcome! I'm just glad someone besides myself found it helpful :)

Well, you can have it automatically break out of the IFrame using this userscript[^] I just wrote. It's written for Chrome; I don't run Greasemonkey in my Firefox installation, so I'm not sure it'll work there too... but I can't imagine why it wouldn't unless GM doesn't support the @match header. I'll update it if it breaks, since I'll be running it myself, and it will annoy me. :P

This threw me off. I'm using Chrome* and am receiving an error that I need to use Internet Explorer 4+ or Firefox, and turn on Javascript (Javascript is not disabled in my Chrome). Is Chrome actually not supported, or is this a bug? *UserAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.99 Safari/533.4" (Windows 7)

I just use Stylish to make my Google pages dark. They look nicer that way anyway. It's also nice to be able to cut my login screens down to two boxes. I mean really... do I need to read about Gmail's great features every time I sign in? No, they're why I already use it! Same for every other login page out there. That's why I love the integrated logins on sites like this. :P

Hear hear. I'm (in gamer terms anyway) a total newb with a lot of languages. I have a very (very) general understanding of VB and C++, a little more in-depth knowledge of PHP, ASP and ASP.net, and pretty strong understanding of Javascript. I do web design, so the next logical step is to head into web development and make entire interactive applications, rather than just front ends. I'm more than a little frustrated, though with the number of brick walls I receive when I ask for tips and troubleshooting. I don't get it from everyone (by the way, thank you to all of you who've helped me grow so far) but I'd say about 75% of the people who even respond to my questions tend to have a very negative "if you can't do it now, you'll never be able to. Just give up" attitude towards me. I just want to thank you and everyone else out there with that attitude of cutting some slack for the new guys. As long as the guy asking you for help is actually trying to learn (rather than just copying your code), it can be pretty rewarding to help out. That goes for anything, not just programming. -joequincy (there's only one)