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Do an Easy Search from Browser Text in Firefox

June 2nd, 2008 | by Loren |

Here’s a way to do a quick search from words on a web page, especially for names or place names.

You’re reading a web page see a name or a couple words that you want to find out more information on. Select the words (click and drag your mouse across them), then right-click on the words and in the menu that pops-up choose Search Google for “…” A new tab will open in Firefox with Google showing search results from your selected words.



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  1. 4 Responses to “Do an Easy Search from Browser Text in Firefox”

  2. By Loren on Jun 7, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks for letting me know how you got it to work, Anthony.

  3. By Anthony Cocks on Jun 7, 2008 | Reply

    Hi Loren,

    With a bit of playing – I manged to get it to work! I turend on the setting you suggested, but that alone didn’t work.

    What i needed to as well, was turn on a setting in the google toolbar which said ‘open results in new tab’. It means that all searches from the google toolbar also open in a new window, but thats not a major problem!
    Thanks for your Help!

  4. By Loren on Jun 7, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks for the comment, Anthony. I don’t know this for sure, but in doing a search on your question, it looks like it might be changing a setting in IE, Tools, Internet Options, General tab, Tabs, then Settings. One site suggested turning on the “Always open pop-ups in a new tab” option.
    Would be interested to hear if it works for you. Hope that it helps!

  5. By Anthony Cocks on Jun 7, 2008 | Reply

    This is a great tip – i use the google search on IE all the time. The problem is in IE, google searches use the same page/tab as the you are currently vieweing, so you loose it :( !
    Firefox opens the results in a new tab – is there any way to get IE to do this as well – get the googel search results to open in a new tab? Cheers!

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