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The search box in the upper right of Firefox should be a staple for you.  Here are some things you may not have known.

1. Ctrl-K gives it focus.
2. If you want to remove or re-order the searches, go to ‘Manage Search Engines’ under the dropdown.
3. You can also ‘Get more search engines..’ from that same Manage Search Engines screen.  It takes you to an add-on subpage; just key in the site you’d like to find a search for, e.g. IMDB.
4. Sometimes while web browsing you may notice that the dropdown in the search box will glow blue (color may depend on your theme).  This indicates that you can add a search for that site very quickly to your search bar.  Look for the option under the dropdown.  There aren’t many sites which feature this ability, but CNN is one example.
5. You can assign a keyword to a search on the Manage Search Engines page.  They work like this: you pick a few letters for a keyword, e.g. asd for IMDB, then you can type the keyword followed by your search terms in your address bar to quickly perform that search, e.g. ‘asd tom cruise’.   Note that you can also do this directly from basically any search box you find on the net, by right-clicking in it and selecting ‘Add keyword for this search’.   Ctrl-L gives address bar focus.
6. You can update the Google icon to their new favicon by following the directions here.

This add-on lets you click and drag anywhere on a page to scroll it, versus using your mouse wheel or using the scroll bar.  It’s a bit of functionality lifted from Internet Explorer.  I prefer it lately to the mouse wheel because it’s smoother, and allows for varied scroll speeds.  It’s similar to just using the scroll bar, but you can grab the page anywhere.  Great for use with a tablet pen, and it would also be nice with a touchscreen to emulate iPhone sweetness.

I recommend going ahead and using these 2 options, so as to leave your text selection and mouse gestures unmolested:

After installing, notice also that the add-on has placed a hand icon in the upper right of your ‘Fox; clicking this will toggle the functionality on/off if you’d like.  If you don’t like this icon, here’s how to remove it:  right-click some dead space at the top of your browser (try right below the URL bar) and you should see a context menu with an option for Customize.  Simply drag the hand icon into the pop-up window which has appeared, and it goes away, into that “sandbox”.  Learn something every day.

There’s also a new link to the Grab and Drag preferences under the Tools menu, which you can disable in the add-on’s preferences.

Nab Grab and Drag here.