Search web for…
Published Monday, November 21st, 2005 at 6:07 pm
Every once in a while I discover a "new" feature in a software
application that has been there forever staring me in the face. Today I
had such a discover that I’d like to share. First the background. Often
when I’m at a website reading a news article for example I’ll want to
search for more information on something. Perhaps a name or a company
for example. What I did back in my IE days was to copy the text, open a
new window, navigate to goggle or a9, paste the text into the text box
and hit search. In Firefox this process got simpler. I can copy the
text and past it into Firefox’s search box. This was defiantly an
improvement. Well today I discovered a new way to speed up this task.
Highlight the text, right-click, then select Search web for "XXX". XXX
will be the text you highlighted. Firefox will search for that term on
your default browser and your done. As easy as that. Saves me a lot of
time so I thought I would share because if it has slipped under my nose
for this long I’m sure there are others that have missed it.
