Firefox has a search bar that can access different engines, like Google, Yahoo, or Amazon. For example, if you want to find information about SUSE using the current engine, click in the search bar, type SUSE, and hit Enter. The results appear in your window. To choose your search engine, click the icon to the left of the search bar. A menu opens with a list of available search engines.

Customizing the Search Bar

If you want to change the order, add, or delete a search engine to the bar, establish an Internet connection and proceed as follows.

1. Click the icon to the left of the search bar.

2. Select Manage Search Engines from the menu.

3. Click Remove to delete an entry, Move Up/Down to change the order.

   To add a search engine, click Get More Search Engines. Firefox displays a Web page with available plug-ins. You can choose from Wikipedia, IMDB, Flickr, and others. Click on a plug-in link and choose Add to install it.

Figure 20.2. Manage Search Engines

Some Web sites offer search engines that you can add directly to the search bar. Whenever you enter such a Web site, the icon to the left of the search bar turns blue. Click on the icon and select the “Add” entry from the menu.

Adding Smart Keywords to Your Online Searches

Firefox lets you define your own smart keywords: abbreviations to use as a URL shortcut for a particular search engine. If you define ws as a smart keyword for the Wikipedia search for example, you can now type ws SEARCHTERM into the location bar to search Wikipedia for SEARCHTERM.

To assign a shortcut for a search engine from the search bar, click the icon to the left of the search bar and open the Manage Search Engines dialog. Mark a search engine and open the Edit Keyword dialog.

It is also possible to define a smart keyword for any search field on a Web site. Proceed as follows:

1. Right-click on the search field and choose Add a Keyword for this Search from the menu that opens. The Add Bookmark dialog appears.

2. In Name, enter a descriptive name for this smart keyword.

3. Enter your Keyword for this search.

4. Choose the location where to save this smart keyword with Create In.

5. Finalize with Add.

	Smart Keywords for Regular Web sites
Using smart keywords is not restricted to search engines. You can also add a smart keyword to a bookmark (via the bookmark's properties). For example, if you assign nov to the Novell home page bookmark, you can open it by just typing nov into the location bar.

To search inside a Web page, click Edit+Find in This Page or press Ctrl+F. The find bar opens. It is usually displayed at the bottom of a window. Type your query in the input field. Firefox finds the first occurrence of this phrase as you type. You can find other occurrences of the phrase by pressing F3 or the Next button in the find bar. Clicking the Highlight All button will highlight all occurrences of the pharse. Checking the Match Case option makes the query case-sensitive.

Firefox also offers two quick find options. Click anywhere you like to start a search on a Web page, type the key / immediately followed by the search term. The first occurrence of the search term will be highlighted as you type. Use F3 to find the next occurrence. It is also possible to limit quick find to only links. This search option is available by typing the key '.