Here are the snippets that allow you to do custom searching by keyword in Opera and Firefox for CPAN repository.

If you are using Opera browser, with this snippet you can directly search CPAN by typing this command under address bar:

cpan Module::Name
or
cpan Anything

Store this snippet under file: ~/.opera/search.ini

For Firefox, please follow subsequent instruction:
Opera 
[Search Engine 41]
Name=&cpan
URL=http://search.cpan.org/search?m=all&q=%s&s=1&n=20
Query=
Key=cpan
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=0
Verbtext=17063
Position=-1
Nameid=0

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Firefox 
 * Bookmark: http://search.cpan.org/search?m=all&q=%s&s=1&n=20 
   where the %s  will be replaced by the query string
 * Give the bookmark the keyword: cpan
 * By typing: cpan Module::Name -in the addressbar will get the module

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In reply to Opera + Firefox browser Shortcut for searching CPAN & Perldoc by monkfan

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