Quick Mozilla/Firefox Question

Hi all-
I began with Mozilla at work and really got used to it. I installed FireFox at home to see the differences.
One of the things I got used to with Mozilla that I can't seem to replicate in FireFox is using the address field as a google search field.
That is- start typing in the address field and one of the options in the drop down list is a google search for what I've just typed. Nice. Love it. Want it in FireFox.

Oh- one more thing-
Page searching for text. In Mozilla, anytime I just start typing (not entering data to a field) the page in the browser is scanned for the word I'm typing out. Easy. Nice. Handy.
In FireFox, I have to get a 'Find text in page' dialog up before I can start the search (and press 'enter' after typing in the search field). Yuck. Cumbersome.

I'd go all FireFox if I could easily mimick the things I like about Mozilla. (all I'm after is the browser, anyways) Any ideas?

If it matters- I'm running Win2k at work and WinME at home.
Thanks in advance- Stew

Preferences->Advanced->Accessibility->Begin finding when you begin typing

I know what you're talking about with respect to the search entry in the URL bar list, but I don't know any way to replicate it with Firefox. However, I can suggest this:

Go to Google (or whatever search engine you like) and right-click in the text entry field. Select "Add a Keyword for this search". It'll pop up a dialog that asks you to enter a keyword and a name. Enter an appropriate name (it's just a descriptor) and then enter a short keyword. (I use "g".) Then you can type into the URL bar "g search items" and hit return and it'll perform that search for you. I find that even easier than the thing you're describing.

Try just typing your search into the address bar and pressing enter. Mine is setup (don't remember what I did) to search google if no valid URL is present.

my understanding is that by default if you type into the address bar it will be treated like a 'I'm feeling lucky' google search. I'm dang near sure of it.

Ahh, maybe that's it. I don't actually ever search that way. I hit alt-d shift-tab to get to the search bar.

Yeah, that's true. I forgot because I hate that. I don't want a search when I mistype a domain name. But now I can't remember where I changed it.

Edit: Oh yeah, it's the option keyword.enabled.

Amen, I hate that too. In fact, when I get anything other than 404 I know I have been infected by adware.

If only they'd make ctrl-enter append the www. and .com I'd be so frickin thrilled. On IE, I used to type google ctrl-enter and I was there. Loved that.

Works that way for me.

Eventually, but it takes like 20 seconds.

Uh, for me, if I type "google" and just hit enter, it tries a bunch of different things and eventually gets to www.google.com. If I type "google" and hit Ctrl-Enter, it immediately goes to www.google.com.

REALLY?! Mine definitely does not. Time to upgrade, methinks.

Thanks everyone!
There's a lot more about FireFox that I should learn. This is great stuff!

I believe shift-enter does www. and .org
I don't have the browser on this machine, so I can't test.

In Firefox
/ to find text on the page
' to find links on the page

I just wish that when I search for link that I could hit something to find the next match. If you hit enter it opens the link. Yes I can use the mouse to click find next but then I have to take my hand off the keyboard.

Control-G works for me.

Thanks!!!!!!

Ctrl-K goes directly to the search bar.
Ctrl-L (and Alt-D*) go to the location bar.



*I'm trying to break the habit of using Alt-D because some sites use that as a shortcut. I.e. Mediawiki sites use it for "Delete" and that can be highly annoying. :/

Quote:
One of the things I got used to with Mozilla that I can't seem to replicate in FireFox is using the address field as a google search field.

In my version of Firefox, you can type "google whatever" into the address bar to get a Google search.

You can also type "goto whatever" to get a Google "I feel lucky" search.

You can also customize this; for example, mine is set up so I can do "imdb whatever" to get an imdb search (movies and actors). (Because it really sucks if I ever have to try to view the IMDB front page over dialup. Best to bypass that nonsense and just jump directly to the good stuff.)