Quickest Way to Open a Bookmark on Firefox (Windows)

You just want to open a bookmark on Firefox, and you want to do it quickly.

Sadly, Firefox makes this a bit difficult for us.

The Firefox Way

The quickest out-of-the box way I found, is to do the following:

• Ctrl + T to open a new tab
• Type '* ' (that's * followed by a space) into the "Awesome"bar
• Type part of the name or URL of the bookmark, for instance 'gmail'
• Press Tab to select the first result
• Hit Enter

While this gets the job done, I find it to be frustratingly slow.

So I spent an unreasonable amount of time today to try and figure out how to do this more quickly!

And I am happy to report I found a way:

The Fastest Way (Known to Me)

First, we need to do some setup:

• Install Microsoft PowerToys
• Launch it and disable all disable all the modules apart from 'PowerToys Run':

• Download and install PowerToysRun-FirefoxSearch
• Restart Microsoft PowerToys

Now we are ready to open a Firefox bookmark QUICKLY:

• Alt + Tab to Open PowerToys Run
• Type 'ff ' that's 'ff' followed by a space
• Type part of the name of your bookmark or it's URL
• Hit Enter

This will open a new tab in your current Firefox window.

Why is this faster than the Firefox native way?

1. Alt + Tab is faster to press than Ctrl + T
2. 'ff' is faster to type than '*'
3. We don't need to select the bookmark result through pressing Tab

These together add up and I think it saves me around 50% of the time. Nothing insignificant for an action I do dozens of times per day.