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 [...]
Firefox Drag And Drop Search
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 [...]
Add Search to the Awesome Bar in Firefox 3
I’m getting some very good tips from readers of my blog lately, it’s really appreciated. This time it was Dark Kosmos who tipped me of on a new Firefox 3 extension called Awesome Search which adds search to the Awesome Bar in Firefox 3. In case you did not know the Location Bar of Firefox [...]
