Comments on: quick searches in Firefox

By: lisha

lisha — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 06:35:21 +0000

I just like to ask about how to delete previous searches in yahoo search engine…Im using mozilla firefox as a default browser and Linux as operating system. I find it hard to delete previous searches now unlike when im using MS. how is it?pls help.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:51:42 +0000

Thejaswi: Thanks for the tip, that’s good to know.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:18:48 +0000

I do the same thing Thejaswi does - Ctrl-K gets me right there.

By: Thejaswi

Thejaswi — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:27:42 +0000

I just do a ctrl+k and Firefox takes me to the Search Box on the top Right and i need not even delete the old search text it is replaced by default. I still use the Keyword shortcut ( the one you explained here ) for Linux specific searches( http://www.google.com/linux ).

PS: Infact in the new Firefox u have the Keyword shortcut in the right-click menu itself, for example just go to http://www.google.com/linux and right click on the search box on te page and you will find a “Add a Keyword for this search…” in the drop down list.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:42:50 +0000

Justin: You’re right, but I never use that. I don’t like that it stores previous searches because when I want to search for something else I have to delete the text from the previous search.

I just hit Ctrl-L to get into the URL box, so it’s quick and I don’t even have to use the mouse.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:27:20 +0000

Isn’t there a searchbox in Firefox next to the place where you type the URL? You can add several search engines to the pulldown menu and use whichever one you want as the default. I use Google most of the time, but it’s very easy to add engines for Amazon.com and IMDB.