Power Firefox Search

I recently re-discovered a power feature on Firefox, and its ability to use keywords to help Firefox know which search engine you want to use without having to select it from the search engine lists.

Why do this, well if you are like me, and get annoyed at the need of selecting a search engine form the drop down with your mouse before executing the search. Then you probably just don’t do it.

So here is the trick; Select the list of search engine drop downs on your Firefox search bar, and select “Manage Search Engines”. Now go through and add keywords to your favourite search engines. I only have a few, so I use single letter keywords. ‘g’ for Google, ‘e’ for eBay, ‘w’ for Wikipedia etc. Keep it simple. Your done! Now to search to Google, just type ‘g your search term’ in the address bar and it will search google. Try a few options of switching search engines. Command-T (on Mac) and y9ou open a new tab, then start typing;

• g news for sydney
• w portals
• e iPod 8gb (e is my eBay keyword)

Now to tidy things, up, get rid of that search bar which you no longer need and make your address bar longer. Right click on any blank space on the Firefox Header and select “Customize”. Now drag your search bar off the window and into the customize window and it disappears.

Now your really done! Feel the speed power and power of firefox!!