Firefox Smart Keywords

One of the cool features of Firefox, is the ability to use smart keywords to get to pages like google very quickly. If you are like me, you used to goto www.google.com, then select the input box, and type in what you are looking for.

With the advent of Smart Keywords, you can open a new browser, type in "google spoke pov" and your new page will fill with the results of a google search of "spoke pov".

I spent some time looking through the preferences of Firefox to see where this is setup, only to find nothing in the options.

After some more googling, I found that these are done by an extension of any bookmark you make. For example goto a site like thottbot and search for "Runecloth". You are returned with the following URL (http://www.thottbot.com/?s=runecloth). All you do is book mark this page, and then go in and replace runecloth with %s. Also, you update the keyword field to be thottbot. Save the bookmark, and now you can type "thottbot runecloth" and it will perform the search for you automatically.

Found all the details at this site.

http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html