234589 - Search-shortcuts for the adress field like in Opera

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 231865

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Andre Schaub]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210 Firefox/0.8

It would be a very nice feature if Firefox would be able to process searches
with Search-Engine shortcuts like Opera does. I.e. if you type g firefox, a
google search with the keyword "firefox" is initiated. e firefox for ebay, etc.
If you are used in using this shortcuts, you will painfully miss this feature in
Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try Opera and get used in this feature
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Actual Results:  
I missed it in Firefox ;)

Expected Results:  
Perform a search.. ;)

Comment 1

[dolphinling]

You mean like bookmark keywords? Firefox should have come with a few predefined
ones, google and dictionary.com are two IIRC. 

AFAICT, they're almost identical to what you said. Can you look at them and then
mark this WORKSFORME?

Comment 2

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

you mean these?
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231865 ***

Comment 4

[Andre Schaub]

Perfect. Keywords are working fine with Google and ebay. I didn't know the
keyword feature. It should be included in the Tips page.

Thx a lot for solving my problem.