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[...] Make Your Own FireFox Search Plugins & Other Tips From Make Use Of: Search plugins options in FireFox are useful for one simple reason: you can store all your search engines in one place and quickly access any of them any time. They save space and time. What’s more, the search plugins option can be configured in multiple ways and few people are really aware of how much fun they can have with this functionality. Here are some tips and tricks to show how you can customize your FireFox search plugins. Plus few links to make your own firefox search plugin. [...]

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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.