A cool new feature of Firefox 3 is the ability to add a keyword (or “keyletter”) to a search engine.

To add a keyword to a search engine, click the search engine icon to pull the up the drop-down menu and then click Manage Search Engines... . Select the search engine that you want to add a keyword to and click Edit Keyword and then assign a keyword. I personally like to use a ‘keyletter.’

For example, I have the letter G assigned to Google.

What this assigning of ‘keyletters’ allows you to do is to type the letter g into the address bar and then type what you want to search for.

For example, typing in: g justin allard will be like going to Google.com and searching for justin allard.

This trick can be particularly handy for when you don’t want to change the search engine in the drop-down menu just for one search.