Keywords. Rather than typing an address, you type the keyword that represents the search engine you want to use, followed by the phrase to search for. By default, Firefox includes four Search Keywords that you can use from the Location Bar. (You can also add your own special words, but this is a very advanced topic beyond the scope of this book.) I outline these in Table 4-3. Table 4-3: Firefox Search Keywords Keyword Action Example google Searches for a word or phrase on Google google New York dict Retrieves the definition of a word on Answers.com dict facetious wp Searches for a word or phrase on Wikipedia, a community-edited encyclopedia wp war of 1812 quote Retrieves trading information for a stock ticker on Google's stock quote service quote GOOG For example, suppose you want to look up a company's trading information on the stock market. You would simply: 1. Click within the Location Bar. 2. Type quote stocksymbol (but replace stocksymbol with the stock's symbol). For example, you can type quote GOOG and find out the current value of Google stock (see Figure 4-5). Figure 4-5: Finding a stock value. 3. Press Enter or click Go. Firefox displays the latest stock quote information.           Finding Text within a Page Unfortunately, finding the Web page you're looking for is often just half the battle. The other half is finding the specific bit of information you're looking for within that page. Fortunately, Firefox offers a powerful tool called the Find Bar, which makes searching pages easy.   In search of a better Find feature Because the Find Bar is a radical departure from the standard Find features in other programs, it was also the subject of much debate during early Firefox development. The concern wasn't that Firefox searched as you typed, but rather that the Find feature now lived within a toolbar instead of a window, and that this toolbar lived at the bottom of the window instead of the top. The problem with the standard Find window is that it invariably gets in the way by obscuring the very phrase you were trying to find. Some programs, such as Microsoft Word, try to alleviate the problem by moving the Find window out of the way automatically, but we found this behavior even more annoying: Suddenly your windows are playing musical chairs without your consent. We modeled an alternate solution whereby the Find feature was instead housed in a toolbar at the bottom of the window and asked some people to try it out. Their reaction was so positive that we decided the break with tradition was warranted. Software development is a tricky business, however, and we overlooked one subtle flaw in our model testing: Rather than allowing our test users to discover the toolbar on their own, we pointed them to it. Had we instead observed them in their natural course, we would have immediately discovered a problem that only came to light much later on: Many people didn't notice the Find Bar's appearance after they opened it! We received many reports of the Find in This Page option being broken.