You do not use google toolbar and you have to go to google website everytime you need to search something. Use an easier way, perform google search in firefox address bar. You can alter one of the setting to activate this feature.

Here is how to do it :

1. Enter about:config in the Firefox address bar and press Enter.


2. You will see a message about voiding Warranty displays. If you do not wish this message to appear again uncheck the box in front of Show this warning next time.

3. Click on I’ll be careful, I promise! button.

4. In the Filter box, enter keyword.URL


5. To edit the value of the keyword.URL setting, double click text in Value column.

6. To perform a search in Google using the address bar, enter the following into the edit box on the Enter string value dialog box

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=

about:config in the Firefox address bar and press Enter

This is a simple method which you could use. It could be used for other search engines too. You just need they keyword.URL value for other search engines.