what is the difference between tags and keywords?
Of course I "get" that "somehow" keywords and tags help when I'm entering text in the url text box at the top of Firefox.
But I can't seem to find anything that tells me EXACTLY how keywords are used versus EXACTLY how tags are used.
I guess I could type every tag / keyword in BOTH places, but "that don't sound right".
Please publish an article on "tags versus keywords", or improve the index to some existing article that covers both clearly.
Thanks!
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Theoretically, they are the same thing. The incredibly simplified answer to the question is: keywords are used to find things via search engines; tags are used to find things within your own blog.
Tags are a way of categorizing bookmarks in Firefox. IMO, it was created to allow users to "tag" a bookmark to help find it, rather than saving the same bookmark into separate folders when the bookmark might fit multiple resource categories. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/categorizing-bookmarks-make-them-easy-to-find#w_using-tags
Keywords can be used to search specific websites directly from the Firefox Location bar. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-bar
You can assign a keyword to a bookmark or search engine and invoke this item easily via the location/address bar by typing this keyword and possible extra parameters, so a keyword identifies one particular item. Tags are used to organize bookmarks into groups with the name of the tag, so a specific tag points to all bookmark items that have this tag.
Note that Firefox 40 will remove the Keyword column in the Bookmarks Manager (Library). Keywords will be bound to a specific URL and not to a specific bookmark.
Some technical details: