Search your Salesforce directly from the Chrome Address Bar

One of the most used tricks I like to use is searching my Salesforce org right from the address bar.
I used to have every time I wanted to search something in Salesforce without losing my current tab, I had to clone a tab first (or open some link in a new tab), wait for it to load, and only then type in your search?

A cool trick I LOVE to use is to create a custom 'Search Engine' in Chrome that allows me to search quickly right from the address bar.

Almost every time I show this to someone new - I get a 'OMG' moment from them, so I though sharing would be a great idea.


Setting Up:
To start, we need to go into Chrome's settings.

In the Settings page, find the "Search" section and click the Manage Search Engines button

Scroll to the bottom of the 'Other Search Engines' list until you see an empty line where you can define a new one

We are now going to set up Salesforce as a search engine.

Name it: Salesforce
Keyword: sf (though you can really use whatever you want)

URL: https://na4.salesforce.com/_ui/search/ui/UnifiedSearchResults?str=%s

-- AS ALWAYS: Make sure to replace the na4 in the above link with your Org's pod number --

It should look something like this:

That's it - setup is done! Let's see how we can use this.

Usage:

Click the F6 button on your keyboard to edit the address bar, or mouse-click the address bar to edit it.

Click a quick Delete or backspace to remove the current address from it.

Type SF (or whatever keyword you used) and then space - that should show you that whatever you type now will be searched in Salesforce.

Type in your search query - and click Alt + Enter to search in a new tab.

(You can also just click enter to search in the existing tab)

The Result:

Voila! 

Hope this proves as useful to you as it does to me every single day of my life!