beside smart bookmarks you have searchplugins in firefox. unfortunately in the mozilla addon repo doesn't have one for CPAN, but David showed how to get one. but because ff3 has a new API we need an update which i deliver here now: 
<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>CPAN</ShortName>
<Description>Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
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<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://search.cpan.org/se
+arch">
  <Param name="query" value="{searchTerms}"/>
  <Param name="mode" value="all"/>
</Url>
<SearchForm>http://cpan.perl.org/</SearchForm>
</SearchPlugin>

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In reply to CPAN searchplugin for firefox 3 by sir_lichtkind

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