I read a Lifehacker post a few months back that changed the way I use Firefox. If I want to go to Weather.com, I would normally type out the full web address. But now, I only need to type “w.” And say I wanted to search Lifehacker for a specific keyword. I would normally go to Lifehacker.com and use the built-in search bar. But now, I just type “lhsearch keyword” (without quotes and with ‘keyword’ being my search term) into my Firefox address bar and press Enter. These one-letter bookmarks and address-bar based searches are easy to configure, as long as the site’s search tool works something like this:
http://www.site.com/search/%s
“%s” represents the search term. That is what your address bar should look like after you’ve performed a search on the site.
The extension you need and all of the instructions to easier, faster bookmarking are available through the Lifehacker post.
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