Where’s the peanut butter?!

This is the obvious and crowning achievement in the feature that IE
has had for a while but left undocumented in href="http://www.psoul.com/index.cgi/computers/IEAutoSearch.html">the
SearchUrl regkey and which is a href="http://www.psoul.com/index.cgi/computers/firebird.html">feature
in Firefox (Keywords or Quicksearches). Briefly, the behavior lets
you more quickly navigate various web forms by specifying some prefix
for some destination form and then and then handling “[prefix] [search
string]” in the address bar. For instance, I use “bus” as my prefix to
search the King County Metro
website for bus schedules so “bus 242″ gets me the schedule for route
242. The hassle has always been hacking the destination URL to figure
out what token you need where in the querystring to make the form
behave like you want.

But now it’s as easy as:
1. browse and find a page with a form for which you want a quicksearch
2. right click the form > “Add a Keyword for this search”
3. name your bookmark and set the keyword

Firefox is like crack!