FireFox: Cycle Search Engines Keyboard Shortcut
July 18th, 2006Today, by pure accident, I discovered that the built-in search box in the top-right corner of the application window cycles through the collection of search engines when Ctrl+Up or Ctrl+Down.
This was cool for me becuase before I learned this I was selecting with the mouse, and that was getting annoying. Now I can do everything from the keyboard:
- Ctrl+T (new tab)
- Tab (move to search box)
- Type search phrase
- Ctrl+Up or Ctrl+Down to select search engine
- Enter (launch search)
The search engines I use the most are Google, of course, and Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com also has a pretty awesome Thesaurus, and I try to use it when I want to sound sophisticated (read: when writing formal papers).
