This is for people who aren’t geeks. Mah geek homies out there don’t need no educatin’ in the ways of the ‘fox, of course:
Open Firefox 3 (you are using Firefox 3, right?). Go to any page, say, IMDB. Right-click on any search box on the page, and choose “Add keyword for this search”. A bookmark dialog pops up. You can give the search any name you want–it doesn’t really matter, it’s just what shows up in your bookmark list.
For keyword, put something short and relevant. For IMDB, try using “i”.
Now, if you go to the address bar and type in “i katrina bowden”, it will search IMDB for you and take you to the delicious Katrina Bowden’s page.
For extra credit, notice that if you change the search category to, say, “Names”, you can give that a different keyword and it will actually search only the names.
This is my new favorite way to search for things; it’s even quicker than using the search box in the upper-right-hand corner, and requires less clicking, since you don’t have to drop down the box. There’s enough alphabet letters to go around, too: ‘y’ for Yahoo!, ‘ym’ for Yahoo! Maps, ‘g’ for Google, ‘gm’ for Google maps.
Then, of course, there are the critically important searches: ‘p’ for perldoc.perl.org, ‘c’ for search.cpan.org, ‘m’ for mysql.com….
