A lot of people have sent in various suggestions about making Firefox do google searches, but none of them meet the stated requirements: simply typing in a few keywords in the URL bar and pressing return, same as I would if I were typing in a real URL. They all involve an extra step of one kind or another. I'm beginning to think this is going to require hacking Firefox.
I did wonder how Mozilla did it so I went back and checked. Apparently I wasn't remembering it quite right. The difference between Mozilla and Firefox here is that when I type keywords into the Location bar, Mozilla tries to match that with a previously seen URL and provides the list of potential matches in a nice little popup menu like this one:
Firefox does the same thing except that it skips the last entry. That is, it never offers me a Google search as an option. I'll expand the question a little bit. Does anyone know how, if not exactly to solve the original problem, at least to make Firefox's location bar behave like Mozilla's and give me the option for a Google search in the URL autocomplete?
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