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This is a neat trick I found in Fire­fox. This works at least in Fire­fox 3 and may al­so work in Fire­fox 2; I do, how­ev­er, en­cour­age you to up­grade if you’re still us­ing Fire­fox 2, as the third re­lease brings about many need­ed en­hance­ments in per­for­mance and mem­o­ry usage. Us­ing a book­mark, one can turn the lo­ca­tion bar in­to a sort-of com­mand parser, there­by cre­at­ing a sort of “key­board short­cut” for that book­mark. This in ef­fect al­lows you to cre­ate your own cus­tom “key­board short­cuts” or “lo­ca­tion bar com­mands”. Here’s an ex­am­ple of how it works. Say I want to cre­ate a short­cut for Google Im­age Search. I can go to the Im­age Search page, and right click the box, and se­lect “Add a key­word for this search”:

En­ter some name for your search; the name doesn’t mat­ter. (Al­ter­na­tive­ly, you could sim­ply cre­ate a new book­mark; its tar­get (“lo­ca­tion”) should be some­thing like http://www.google.com/search?q=%s, where %s rep­re­sents what will be searched on. Right-click the book­mark you just cre­at­ed and click “prop­er­ties”.) This di­alog box will pop up:

In “key­word”, type the “com­mand” that you wish to use to ac­cess this short­cut. In this case, I would use some­thing like “imgs” or “is”. One-let­ter key­words do not seem to work very well. On­ce you have en­tered the key­word and closed the di­alog, you can type in the lo­ca­tion bar (press CTRL+L to get there quick­ly):

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Press en­ter, and be­hold your search un­fold­ing be­fore your eyes.

Here’s how to stop Fire­fox from au­to­mat­i­cal­ly virus scan­ning all down­loads after they’ve fin­ished - some­thing that’s been an­noy­ing me since I’ve up­grad­ed to Fire­fox 3 be­cause of the ex­tra­ne­ous disk ac­cess­es it cre­ates. Open up the about:config (open a new tab, type about:con­fig in the lo­ca­tion bar), and find the browser.down­load.man­ager.scan­When­Done val­ue. Type in browser in the fil­ter bar for quick search­ing. Set that val­ue to false by dou­ble-click­ing. And that’s it! What, were you ex­pect­ing some­thing more?

(orig­i­nal­ly read here)