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Safari and Firefox - Quick Google Search

Usually, what will you do when you want to start new search with Google search bar on the top-right corner of your web browser? There are three ways to do that.

Type 1. Google Homepage

This is the least advanced way. However, most of my friends still use this way. First, you open new tab (keystrokes : Command-T), followed by typing in the url address "www.google.com", filling in the search term and Google will return you the result.

The advantage of using this way is that you can see Google homepage which in special occasion, the logo is changed.

Type 2. New Tab and Search Bar

In this way, you will open a new tab (shortcut : Command-T), move cursor to search box (shortcut : Command-L Tab or Command-Option-F for Safari and Command-K for Firefox), type the search term and Google will bring you to the result page for your search.

Type 3. Search Bar and Open Search in New Tab

Fortunately, you don't really need to open new tab before you want to perform new search with Google. You can jump quickly to the search bar with the shortcut provided (as exposed before), type in your search term and then open url in new tab (keystrokes : Command-Return for Safari and Option-Return for Firefox). In return, you will have new tab opened with the search result from Google.

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mediter 

in Type 2 the shortcut for Safari could also be Opt Cmd F instead of Cmd L Tab

Richard 

Is there anyway to use google.co.nz instead of google.com from the search bar?

Thanks

Wendy 

Hi Richard, you can download Inquisitor (Safari Plugin) and change the default search engine using that. Here is the quick tutorial to do that Change Default Safari Search Engine.

frov 

A much, much better way to google search on Safari is to use the free Sogudi plugin-- you can set is so that just typing "g sogudi" does a google search on sogudi, or "show me why safari is better than firefox", will do a google search for just exactly that! And it will work for any other search engine as well, you simply have to create the shortcut.

frov 

...I should mention that the above searches work directly in the main location bar, not the tiny search bar on the right--much easier to use that way.

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