(originally posted at http://www.protrade.com/content/DisplayArticle.html?sp=Sfcecf902-3939-11dc-bb15-ad4d09b7b838)

Hey guys,

If you’re like all of my friends, then you probably use Mozilla Firefox instead of Microsoft IE. It took me maybe two minutes to figure out, but I found a way to quickly access the Protrade search from anywhere on the internet.

For example, say I’m listening to the game on the radio while browsing something completely unrelated. I hear some player news and want to access the player’s stock page quickly. Let’s say I hear that Ted Lilly is having a monster outing, getting 13 K’s. Rather than logging on to PT before I can do the search, I can just open a new tab (Ctrl+T) and immediately type “pt lilly” and I’ll get the classic search results page. There, I can click on his name and be taken straight to his player detail page so that I can buy him, short him, etc. I know this doesn’t save a whole lot of time, but I assume there are probably a lot of you out there who are like me and love keyboard shortcuts whenever you want to do something.

So anyway, how do you do it? Here’s the step-by-step guide:

1. Create a new bookmark in Firefox (Bookmarks > Quick Searches > right-click, and hit “New Bookmark”)

2. Under “Name,” call it something like “Protrade Quicksearch”

3. Under “Location,” type “http://www.protrade.com/athletes/Search.html?sp=S%s” (without quotes.) This was the tricky part to figure out, as the regular search box on the PT site is based in Javascript or something, not a direct http link to the search page.

4. Under “Keyword,” type “pt” (or whatever you want to type into the address bar to indicate to Firefox that you’re going to do a protrade search.)

5. Hit OK.

Now, whenever you type “pt xxxx” into the address bar of Firefox, it will take you to the Protrade search results page for “xxxx.” Note that this will appear in the active tab, so you may want to open a new tab with Ctrl+T.

Hope that some of you guys find this little tip useful.

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