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I’m a very lazy person. Whenever I enter the phrase ‘face’ into the address bar of Mozilla Firefox I want it to automatically redirect me to http://www.facebook.com. Whenever I did enter only ‘face’, it redirected me to face.com instead which turned out to be very annoying in my opinion.

Therefore I did some research on how to go to facebook whenever I enter ‘face’ into the URL bar and stumbled across a very nice feature in Firefox: It’s possible to use the Google – I’m Feeling Lucky function whenever Firefox is unable to resolve an entered domain name.

In order to enable it simply follow those few steps:
1.) Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
2.) Confirm the warning message and proceed.
3.) Enter the following text into the filter: keyword.enabled – Double click the value returned by the search and make sure it’s true (enabled).
4.) Enter the following text into the filter: keyword.URL – Double click the value returned by the search and set it to http://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=

You’re done – the changes apply instantly. Whenever you enter ‘face’ into the address bar of Firefox, it will automatically redirect you to Facebook.com.