Give power your Firefox SearchBar

Many people use Firefox but few know how improve the search bar.

There are may add-ons to search  but only two are really useful:

• Add to Search Bar: adds a function in context menu that enables to include any site in the list of search engines. Right click on search box of site that you want add and then click on “Add to search bar…”. No sweat!
• ContextSearch: permits to search  selected words directly from context menu.

One other trick very useful  for open search directly in new tab is that:

1. write “about:config” in address bar and press enter
2. click ok on the alert page
3. write “browser.search.openintab” in filter box
4. change value from false to true by double click
5. restart Firefox

The last trick that I want advise permits to search in address bar by different search engines. Normally, when you write a word in address bar Firefox uses “I’m feeling lucky” of Google, but it’s possible to use all search engines of the our list and to do it we must put before the word a keyword. This trick works only if the keyword is associated with a search engines.

For add a keyword:

1. Click “manage search engines” in search bar menu
2. Select a search engines and click on change keyword
3. Insert the keyword that you want use. Foe example I use “–g” for Google, “-w” for Wikipedia and “-y” for YouTube

If you want change the default behavior and set the normal Google search, you do this:

1. write “about:config” in address bar and press enter
2. click ok on the alert page
3. write “keyword.URL” in filter box
4. double click on line and insert “http://www.google.com/search?q=”
5. restart Firefox