hello, its possible to achieve this through the settings in firefox - just enter about:config into the firefox location bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named browser.search.context.loadInBackground. double-click it and change its value to true.

Thank You, madperson!

That is exactly what I wanted. It works and the response was extremely quick. This makes researching so much easier:)

you're very welcome :-)