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Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you said, but you can currently do this in Chrome.

Options -> Manage (searches) -> double click an existing search or add a new one -> set Keyword to a single letter.



I think he wants that functionality in FF.


Firefox also has keyword search (i.e. type in "wp something" and go to the wikipedia page for "something") - you just have to define a keyword for an existing bookmark, and then place %s in the URL where you'd like the search term to appear.

For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%s

I believe the default installation comes with a handful of these Bookmark "Shortcuts".


In Firefox you can also right-click on a form field and choose "Add a keyword for this search..."


Although I did mean FF I didn't realize chrome had this yet. And they do it much clearer then Opera did. I really like the way that it auto changes to tell you that you are about to search yahoo, etc.




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