cool trick in firefox 1.5

if you are not using mozilla firefox as your default web browser....

you should be!!!

go here right now and download it before reading any further.

i just discovered a new feature in v 1.5; you can right click on a search box in any page (i think :)), and choose 'Add a keyword for this search'. From then on, you can search with that keyword straight from the location bar.

So, as an example, i set 'w' to be my shortcut for wikipedia search, so now i can search wikipedia just by typing "w ani difranco" in the location bar (where you type http://www.hotmail.com/ for luddites)

you can do as many different shortcuts as you want.

way cool...