{"id":5743,"date":"2008-06-30T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T08:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/use-keywords-for-any-search-engine-in-firefox\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:29:44","slug":"use-keywords-for-any-search-engine-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/use-keywords-for-any-search-engine-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Use keywords for any search engine in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I especially like about Firefox is the way search tools are implemented to make them more accessible to the user. Press <strong>Ctrl+F<\/strong>, for example, and you&#8217;ll be able to search the web page you&#8217;re currently visiting from the bottom tab. Or you can press <strong>Ctrl+K<\/strong> to activate the built-in Google search field on the top right corner \u2013 a search field that can be <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-add-any-search-engine-to-firefox\/\">easily customized<\/a> with other search engines. Another trick is one that Cyril taught us a while ago: <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/faster-browsing-with-firefox-quick-searches\/\">using keywords<\/a> to quickly search any website from the browser&#8217;s address bar.<\/p>\n<p>Now with the all-new Firefox 3 you can also use these keywords to manage the built-in search engines. You only have to click on the little arrow to the right of the G icon in the search field, and select &#8220;Manage search engines&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/06\/search01.jpg\" alt=\"Use keywords for any search engine in Firefox\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Then select the search engine you want to assign a keyword to and click on the &#8220;<em>Edit keyword<\/em>&#8221; button. That will open a new window where you can enter the keyword that will be linked to that specific search engine.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/06\/search02.jpg\" alt=\"Use keywords for any search engine in Firefox\" \/><\/p>\n<p> From this moment on, you&#8217;ll be able to search that website from the browser&#8217;s address bar simply by typing the keyword you just assigned to it plus your query. In my example, now I can search Wikipedia from anywhere just by using my keyword.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/06\/search03.jpg\" alt=\"Use keywords for any search engine in Firefox\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I especially like about Firefox is the way search tools are implemented to make them more accessible to the user. Press Ctrl+F, for example, and you&#8217;ll be able to search the web page you&#8217;re currently visiting from the bottom tab. Or you can press Ctrl+K to activate the built-in Google search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/use-keywords-for-any-search-engine-in-firefox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Use keywords for any search engine in Firefox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336017,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/336017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}