Using Search Keywords With Firefox To Quickly Search Sites

One of the most productive things in Firefox is the ability to designate a keyword for each website that you want to search, and easily use that keyword to quickly search a site. Instead of having to search for a site by going to the search bar, choosing the site that you want to search from the drop-down menu, and then entering the search phrase, you can simply type the keyword followed by the search phrase into the address bar.

For example, if you want to search IMDB for the movie Ice Age, all you have to do is type ‘i ice age’ into the address bar and press enter. This makes searching sites like google, newegg, amazon, or any other site which you search at much faster. Of course, you can designate any keyword you want for any site, so IMDB can be ‘i’ or ‘imdb’ or anything you want the keyword to be. To set a keyword for a specific site, follow these steps:

1. Go to the website that you want to create a keyword for.



2. Right click on the search form and choose “Add a Keyword fro this Search…”
3. Type the Name of the Website and the keyword that you want to use. To make your bookmarks more organized, you can add all of you search websites to a folder called “Search”.



4. Repeat for every website that you search at.
5. Now you can search any website by typing “[keyword] [phrase]” into the address bar. Makes everything a lot simpler.

Once you are done, you can even remove the search bar from Firefox - you won’t be using it anymore.

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