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Ctrl+K: Search the Web in Firefox

Posted in Firefox by estephen on April 3rd, 2007

In Firefox, press Ctrl+K and — ta da! — your cursor will jump up to the search box in the upper right. Type in a search term (such as “TiVo”) and press Enter. The search results will be displayed in the current browser window, using your default search engine.

If you want to change the search engine by choosing a different one from the pulldown list built in to Firefox, you can press Alt+Down Arrow when your cursor is in the search box, and you’ll see the pulldown menu. Use the Up or Down Arrow keys until the search engine you want is highlighted, then press Enter.

(Note that this feature is for finding web pages. If you just want to search for text on the current web page, you want to Find instead.)

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  1. travis said,

    on April 4th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    On my firefox it CTRL+K navigated to firefox’s home page:
    http://www.google.com/firefox

    I think that it’s because I use the search box from google toolbar instead of the default one though.

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

  2. Matthew said,

    on April 11th, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    Ctrl+E is search in IE7, WMP11, and any Vista program with a search box.

  3. Narayanan said,

    on April 18th, 2007 at 4:08 am

    Ctrl-E does it too.

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