Firefox has this search box next to URL box, and to just use default search engine, it's just Cmd-K query Enter. If I want to query something else just this once – let's say flickr, it's far too much effort:
- Switch to mouse
- Open dropdown menu with search engine
- Select new engine
- Switch to keyboard
- Type query
- Switch to mouse again
- Open dropdown
- Select default engine back
Is there a better way to do this? Perhaps with some prefixes for each engine so I'd just type flickr cats and it would search cats on flickr? (no prefix => default engine)
Best Answer
Ctrl
+Up/Down arrow switches to next/previous search engine in the list.If you want the search box to always go back to the default after a non-default search, install and customize the SearchLoad Options extension.
Alternatively, you may be looking for Second Search.
If you really want to be able to use a specific engine by typing its name, you want something like Obnibar or even Firefox's built-in keyword search feature. There are many other extensions for variations on keyword searching. Browse the Firefox Add-ons website.