24 November 2008 - 11:15ABC Meme
From bsmedberg [benjamin.smedbergs.us].. but a little more automated.
1) In Firefox 3.1, copy the following block of code and paste it into the “Code:” line in the Error Console (cmd-shift-J) then hit enter:
C=Components;d=C.classes['@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1'].getService(C.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection;for(o=[],c=97;c<123;c++){h=String.fromCharCode(c);q=d.createStatement('SELECT title t, url u FROM moz_inputhistory JOIN moz_places ON id=place_id WHERE input LIKE \''+h+'%\' ORDER BY use_count DESC LIMIT 1');if(q.step())o.push(['<b>',h,'</b>: <a href="',q.row.u,'">',q.row.t,'</a>'].join(''))}open('data:text/html,'+o.join('<br/>\n'))
2) View source to copy the generated html to put in your blog. (I’ve added emphasis for what I was trying to match.)
a: Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more
b: Bank of America | Home | Personal
c: Capital One Online Banking | Capital One Online Banking
d: Digg - All News, Videos, & Images
e: edilee
f: Firefox Builds • mozillaZine Forums
g: Video Game Cheats, Reviews, FAQs, Message Boards, and More - GameFAQs
h: Hulu - House
i: The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
j: Joystiq
k: Kotaku, the Gamer’s Guide
l: The LLVMdev November 2008 Archive by thread
m: Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
n: Gaming Discussion - NeoGAF
o: OrderStatus
p: Planet Mozilla
q: PhD Qualifying Examination | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
r: Google Reader
s: JavaScript Shell 1.4
t: tinderbox: Firefox
u: Gmail - Search results - edilee@gmail.com (unread)
v: Apple - Support - Discussions - New MacBook connected to external VGA …
w: Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings - MozillaWiki
x: xkcd - A Webcomic - Drapes
y: Bug 465076 – Yet another Ctrl+Tab / All Tabs design revision
z: Craig Zilles, Department of Computer Sciences
The pages listed here are those that I visit frequently, so it’s not the best way to see the word searching ability of the location bar; however, it’s interesting to see that all but one site matches on the title. It’s also neat to know that I only need to type a single letter and hit enter [addons.mozilla.org] to go to those sites. 
7 Comments | Tags: Add-on, Mozilla
25 Nov 2008 - 3:25
This is not the same as the method described by bsmedberg. With this technique I get different results for some letters. Also I get no results for i, k, o, v, y or z.
25 Nov 2008 - 7:33
Right. The short piece of code I provided only uses the adaptive data, so the reason why you don’t get any results for some letters is that you haven’t used them.
26 Nov 2008 - 12:43
Could you post the code that the awesome bar itself uses to get the first result for a typed letter so that it is an automated version of Benjamin’s steps?
28 Nov 2008 - 9:09
[...] Ed Lee (aka Mardak) has an excellent code snippet for producing these lists right from the Error Console in Firefox 3.1. [...]
30 Nov 2008 - 9:23
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570018 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_IID) [nsIJSCID.getService]” nsresult: “0×80570018 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_IID)” location: “JS frame :: javascript:%20C=Components;d=C.classes['@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1'].getService(C.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection;for(o=[],c=97;c<123;c++){h=String.fromCharCode(c);q=d.createStatement(’SELECT%20title%20t,%20url%20u%20FROM%20moz_inputhistory%20JOIN%20moz_places%20ON%20id=place_id%20WHERE%20input%20LIKE%20\”+h+’%25\’%20ORDER%20BY%20use_count%20DESC%20LIMIT%201′);if(q.step())o.push(['',h,':%20',q.row.t,''].join(”))}open(’data:text/html,’+o.join(’\n’)) :: :: line 1″ data: no]
30 Nov 2008 - 11:36
Make sure you’re using Firefox 3.1 if you’re using that code in the Error Console.
04 Jan 2009 - 19:39
[...] pages in his browser history. Hmm, sounds like a meme in the making! Mardak previous posted some code to do something like this… I’ve modified it to create a list of 10 random Wikipedia [...]