Firefox users have quite a few ways to perform searches without visiting the website of a search engine first. The most common option is the search bar that is displayed by default in one of the Firefox toolbars. Another option is to enter the search term in the Firefox address bar.
The former method is [...]
Automatically Clear The Firefox Search Bar
Three Local Firefox Search Tips
Firefox users have an almost unmanageable amount of add-ons, bookmarklets, user scripts and other tools for searching the Internet at their disposal. The choice is however severely limited when it comes to local searches. Local meaning searches on websites that are currently displayed in the Firefox web browser.
The shortcut [CTRL F] allows them to search [...]
Firefox Drag And Drop Search
Firefox offers many ways to perform searches. It displays a search bar on the top right by default, provides access to keywords that can be used to search and has lots of third party add-ons that add search to the right-click context menu.
The Drag & DropZones extension for Firefox is different and at the [...]
Change Address Bar Search Behavior In Firefox
This is a follow up of the article that explained how to edit the prefix and suffix auto-completion settings in Firefox. One related setting is the way the Firefox search bar behavior works. When a text is entered into the address bar and send to Firefox a Google Browse By Name search is conducted. This [...]
Make Firefox Search For Terms With Periods In The Location Bar
When a user enters a search term in the Firefox location bar (address bar, awesome bar) it is determined if the entered term is an actual web address or a search term. If it is a search term a search using the default search engine is performed. If it is a web address the web [...]
24 Firefox Search Plugins You Need
Searching is probably the one activity that every Internet user is doing on a daily basis. It does not really matter if it is a student doing research for his next essay, a housewife looking for new recipes, youngsters looking for the latest music videos on Youtube or the couple looking for a new health [...]
Display Google Search Results while you type in Firefox
Awesome Search, which I reviewed two days ago, is probably the best application when it comes to Firefox extensions that display Google search results while still typing the search phrase. I would go that far that it saves a lot of space on the main Firefox toolbar because the search form on the right is [...]
