Is there a keyboard shortcut to focus the built in search bar in the top right corner of Firefox?
I saw a similar question which suggested 'gi' but that's for focusing a textbox within a webpage.
You should be able to use the default Firefox mapping for this function called "Focus Search bar" and is listed on the Firefox shortcuts. Working on Linux, Ctrl+K focuses that box while in command mode. If that doesn't work, try prefixing it with i so that the keypress is ignored.
However, if your intention is to initiate a search, you can do this from the Vimperator command line (more efficiently IMO). Each search engine in Firefox has a keyword that can be used with commands open
, tabopen
, etc. You can see these listed in the "Search Keywords" section when you press o from command mode.
For example, to search Wikipedia for "superuser":
:open wikipedia superuser
This means that I've removed the search bar from my default Firefox configuration.