Since people in these comments seem to be asking, you set the key words by selecting the searchbar dropdown, and then “manage search engines” at the bottom.

Ryan — nice work! Some small suggestions for future versions: when you open that search dropdown, it would be awesome to see the shortcuts next to the search engines there. Just in case you’re forgetful and don’t remember what the settings were A fancier feature would be if you mouse over the regular URL entry spot (I seem to be terminologically challenged today), show current searchword shortcuts as mouseover text.

Please tell me how to get to the configuration. Btw, I’m using FF 2.0.0.6

In Firefox there are generally two unique (but sort of related) things lumped under the microsummary name: Live titles (which are regular bookmarks with titles that are updated via microsummaries) and microsummary generators (which allow site authors and anyone willing to construct a generator to extract text from any page via XSLT to be displayed as a live title).

This extension mainly provides an interface for deleting microsummary generators (Firefox provides limited UI for installation, but none for uninstalling) and not much more at this point – though I hope to change that once I’ve got some free time!

As a user, microsummaries are exposed when you’re bookmarking a page. If a site offers microsummaries, you’ll see the name field turn into a drop down menu where can choose to use the site’s provided microsummary. If the site does not offer a microsummary, this is where the generators come in. http://userstyles.org/livetitle for example offers generators for sites which don’t provide microsummaries. If you were to install one of those and then bookmark a site which it operates on, you would see the same drop down menu and the new generated title offered.

It’s a bit late so above probably isn’t as clear as it could be, but in short: microsummaries are pieces of web pages extracted at a regular interval (usually 30min) and displayed in the place of a regular bookmark’s title.

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries has a pretty good explanation as well.

- Ryan

I don’t know how to really use a Microsummary or what it does for me. I know, you’re probably thinking that’s pretty lame, but I’ve never used one or if I did I didn’t know I was using one. Please enlighten me. I checked out the following page, but still feel pretty stupid about it:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_a_Microsummary

I was a programmer while in undergrad (now work in network security and am mainly a manager using my MBA more than my BS), so no need to dumb it down too much, but when I ran across your add-on I found myself wondering, “WTF?”

Thanks,
JW

Thanks again,
Asaf.