Firefox search in new tab

Today, kde somehow (I'm also blaming xfs for this) managed to delete about half my personal settings, making firefox think it had no skin, but still have its extensions, but extensions' config was gone etc. Madness.

My firefox was nicely set up from the olden days of ff3 so that searches from the firefox search bar opened in a new tab. Of course, since the config was gone... Voila, it started sucking again.

So, for everyone that wants their searches to open a new tab (damn useful if you're searching wikipedia AND google AND something else at the same time and hate to hit ctrl+t every time you search, here's the remedy, since they have removed it from the preferences:

a) enter about:config in the adressbar and hit enter.
a.1) ignore the "this will void your warranty" idiocy if it shows up and click through.
b) type "search" into the Filter: field.
c) doubleclick the browser.search.openintab line to set the value to true

and voila, that's it. Your searches will now open a new tab. I seriously don't know why that isn't the default.

Regards,

Gašper