i've been playing with Javascript a little
and added this to my links bar
javascript:void(q=prompt('What%20do%20you%20want%20to%20Search,%20MeFo%20?','')); if(q)void(location.href='http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q='+escape(q))
will put a nice window where you can search
just try adding it to your address bar and check out what it does
and added this to my links bar
javascript:void(q=prompt('What%20do%20you%20want%20to%20Search,%20MeFo%20?','')); if(q)void(location.href='http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q='+escape(q))
will put a nice window where you can search
just try adding it to your address bar and check out what it does