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I like using smart bookmarks like this for specialty searches, e.g. only searching Wikipedia

http://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Aen.wikipedia.org

But if I'm searching the entire internet, I just hit CTRL+K to jump to the search box. Beatcha by two keystrokes! :-p

Agreed. But like I said, you won't get the benefits of the history incremental search. Also, I maybe should have mentioned I have a lot of other one letter shortcuts like that so "g" fits rights in.

Actually, you do get history for your searches, and Google's autosuggest, in modern versions of Firefox. What you say used to be true, but from what I can see CTRL-K strictly dominates a bookmark keyword if you're starting from scratch. That said, if you've already got "CTRL-L g space" in your fingers, it's not so much better that you should switch.

You also get this in Safari.

Incidentally, for Mac users it's incredibly trivial to set up a hotkey for the search box. I have it mapped to CMD-E, and it greatly eases my web flow.

I'm on Firefox 3.5 and didn't see that behavior.

In about:config, do you have browser.search.suggest.enabled set to True? I have a firefox right here and it's working fine.

(since that's probably obscure as the joke is old, that's a reference to the ancient copied at http://www.ahajokes.com/lig069.html )

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