Clever address field parsing in Web browsers

On 19 Jun, 2009, at 04:45 , Adam Engst wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:27 PM, LuKreme<kremelskreme.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 17, 2009, at 6:03, Adam Engst <acetidbits.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I find Safari irritating to use since becoming accustomed to
>>> Firefox's much better text parsing.
>>
>> Yes, but if you have LaunchBar installed you can use it to very
>> quickly launch URLs. If you don't, you can use Spotlight.
>
> Much as I like LaunchBar, what I'm talking about with Firefox is the
> ability to make sense out of what's typed and do the right thing. For
> instance, try typing these lines in both Firefox and Safari and
> hitting Return:

Oh, I know exactly what you mean, but what I mean is that Launchbar
indexes your browser history, so if you've been there before, typing
any part of the URL is going to find it.

For example, in my LB if I type:

agi = forums.agilewebsolutions....
metr = apps.facebook.com/metropolisgame/build.php
padm = <my remote server name>/phpMyAdmin/
podm = <my remote server name>/postfixAdmin/
passg = home.kremne.com/passgen.php

(and of those, I only have the phpMyAdmin and postfixAdmin links
bookmarked, the rest are out of my history)

etc. etc.

> Plus, if what I type is anywhere in the URL of a site I've visited or
> bookmarked, that comes up in the pop-up list (any examples I'd give
> would work only on my Mac). So in Firefox I can start typing
> "esellerate" and go to the link I've bookmarked and named
> "eSellerate". In Safari, it would just go to www.esellerate.com, which
> isn't where I want to go.

Yeah, Safari needs to improve the behavior of its address bar and
integrate it with its history search, but until then, I can get where
I need to go with Launchbar.