Adding arbitrary search URLs to Firefox search bar

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Published on 2010-12-20T01:12:23Z Indexed on 2010/12/21 12:56 UTC
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New-ish versions of Firefox (I'm currently on 3.6) have the nifty "search bookmark" feature, which allows you to create searches in the location bar with custom URLs, e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s.

This is really great, but when trying to mange the engines in the search bar, I was dismayed at the lack of customisability there. It looks like the two search methods are entirely distinct.

Is there a way to put custom URLs in my search bar, or do I have to just hope that whatever I want is on the long but finite list of plugins at mycroft?

Thanks

UPDATE: done a bit more research, posting my own answer

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