I used to be able to type 'imdb morgan freeman' into the address bar...

and it'd goto the Morgan Freeman page of IMDB, but now it doesn' anymore, any ideas? :D

I doubt you'll get answered any faster by posting the same question three times. For your solution, see [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart%20keywords].

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