Comments on: Make Your Own FireFox Search Plugins & Other Tips

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:24:00 +0000

A search tool available at KallOut.com allows to search multiple search engines Google being one of them. It works for highlighted text in FireFox, Word, OutLook, etc.

By: Dbob

Dbob — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:10:58 +0000

Here are two search tools which I enjoy and may answer your
question: “in the news” FF extension. After hiliting a term,
person, etc, right click, choose “in the news” and it will search for related articles/stories.

The other is juice(.com) extension for FF.
It opens up a sidebar with google search results for
a term selected. Check out the video at juice’s site. Just do a mouse gesture and the sidebar will open. You can also drag photos or video to the sidebar
for later used. Juice has given me the exact result I was
looking for on more than one occasion. It think that it
looks at the context of the page used as the selection.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:20:55 +0000

Here a question for the group.

The right click option in firefox is tied to the search box.

If amazon is selected in the search box and I highlight some text and right click, I get an option to search amazon for the highlighted text.

My question is this:

Is there a way to make it so when I right click on highlighted text I always get the option to search google in addition to whatever search engine is selected in the box.

Please advise.

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:05:31 +0000

Thanks, Hannes. Looks like a very useful plugin – going to check it out…

By: phaoloo

phaoloo — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:52:28 +0000

Thanks for a nice plug-in, I find it is handier than opening new tab and search.

By: Hannes

Hannes — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:10:05 +0000

For simple adding search engines go for “add-to-search-bar”-plug in

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682

Then right click into the search field and press “add to search bar” then specify a name – done.