You can widen your Firefox Search Bar by editing your userChrome.css file. In Windows, it is C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random].default\chrome\userChrome.css:
#search-container, #searchbar {
-moz-box-flex: 600 !important;
}
Also, I found from the French Firefox site, but not in the English on-line help, that the keyboard shortcut for selecting the search bar is Ctrl-K.
Tip: The search bar is more useful than Smart Keywords in the Address field because it remembers previous search patterns while the address field does not.
Another handy keyboard shortcut on this theme: after typing control-K to put the focus in the search bar, control-up and control-down will cycle through the available search engines. For example, to do an amazon search instead of google, type control-K, then control-down twice.
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