Firefox: can a shortcut be defined for a site specific Google search?

Question

Is it possible to define shortcuts in Firefox to do a Google search restricted to a particular site?

Background: in the Opera web browser I can define a shortcut, say "su", to do a Google search restricted to a particular site, e.g. superuser.com. This shortcut can be used from the address bar.

Example:

su firewall

will do the same as opening www.google.com and typing:

site:superuser.com firewall

The definition for this is:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:superuser.com+%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

where "%s" represent the search string - "firewall" in the example.

Answer 1

Yes, and the exact same syntax is used in the Firefox bookmarks. You may want to do a google search that you want with some replacement for the text you want to replace (I use XYZZY for this, it's easy to spot). Then replace XYZZY with %s, and add a "keyword" to the bookmark (it's in the "more options" section of the bookmark manager). Then you can type the keyword and whatever you put after the keyword will replace %s in the URL.

See this reference for keywords in Firefox. I tend to leave the trailing colon out of my keywords, they're easier to type. Lifehacker also had a decent article on it which may be more recent.