View the Manpages in Firefox
A cool way to view manpages in linux: View them as html (with color) in firefox.
First, you need to install a program called man2html. Doing this in Ubuntu is as easy as opening a terminal and typing:
sudo apt-get install man2html
Now, that you have this program installed, open your firefox.
From the menu, choose bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks and add a new bookmark with these values:
Location: http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=%s
Keyword: man
Click add and you’re done.
Now, to view a manpage, go to firefox’s URI’s bar (that’s where you usually type a websites URL), and type:
man something. For example: man ls
And see the magic 
Note: This post was originally posted in Tips4Linux.com
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Or type man in the address bar. works 99.9% of the time with zero effort
sorry it the word CMD was removed (as it due to it having angle brackets)
so try
man firefox
man nslookup
man apache
I think I got you TC. What happens in your case might be this:
In firefox 3, when you type a string which is not a valid domain name, Firefox will query Google with that string and take you to the first result (The “I’m feeling lucky” functionality). So in your case, I guess it takes you to this website: http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/