The one thing holding me back from Chrome... smarter keywords?

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Firefox is hideously slow on my laptop and my phone and I’d really like to move to Chrome, but there’s one must-have Firefox feature that I can’t seem to replicate on Chrome: Smart Keywords. This is the functionality that lets me type “wk blahblah” in the address bar to search for blahblah on Wikipedia, or “sdmb” to go directly to the SDMB. For me it’s much faster than using regular bookmarks.

Chrome has the similar “search engines” feature, but it’s not anywhere near as easy to use as a bookmark keyword. Instead of typing in the keyword whenever I add a bookmark, I have to open the search engines interface, scroll to the bottom, manually copy the URL and add it there. Takes a minute instead of a second, and over time it becomes really annoying.

I’ve looked for extensions that can do a better job at this, but haven’t found any that works the way Firefox’s does.

Any ideas? I can’t be the only one who uses this feature, can I…?

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You mean like this?

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Yes, like that, and that’s exactly the process I have a problem with. I guess I wasn’t clear enough in the first post, but it’s a real hassle having to open up that screen, scroll to the bottom, add the entries, paste the URL, edit it to have %s in the right place, and then save it.

In Firefox it’s a one-second affair that happens when you bookmark a new site. Or you can right-click on any search field and add it in a second there.

ETA: Actually, Chrome lets you quickly add search fields as search engines too. Never saw that before. But the process is still difficult for regular pages instead of searches (i.e., to bookmark a page with a keyword).

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I did find a website called Shortmarks that’s kind of a workaround. It’s not the most elegant solution, but it works.