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To add it to the search bar, go to http://duckduckgo.com/ or https://duckduckgo.com/ (depending on if you want SSL or not), and click 'Add to Firefox' at the bottom.

To add it to the address bar, type about:config into the address bar, search for keyword.url and then change it to http://duckduckgo.com/?q= (or https://duckduckgo.com/?q= for SSL).

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This will just replace one of the current searches whereas I want to add one. But I figured it out - in the searchplugins directory in the firefox install are a bunch of xml files. I added a new one with the relevant info and now "duck" is the keyword that maps to a duck duck go search.

For the information of anyone else looking to do this, you can do it in the GUI:

Add it to the search bar

In the search bar dropdown, click "Manage search engines"

Select DDG and set a keyword. I use "d".

Then, search using e.g. "d Hacker News"

People using vimperator can access the dialog with

  :dialog searchangines

"To add it to the address bar, type about:config into the address bar, search for keyword.url"

Actually, it's much simpler than that: just right click on the search field and choose "Add a Keyword for this Search…".

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