The new Add-on from firefox “Selected Search”, makes it easier to start a search from any page.

This opens a popup with all your search engines listed as soon as you release the mouse button and there is any selected/marked text.

You can then select one of the search engines, which will be used to search for the selected text in a new tab.

Firefox has its own built-in contextual shortcut that does this with whatever search engine you’ve got set up as the primary.

One good thing about this extension is that you can pich whatever engine you want to search with depending on what you’ve highlighted.

According to Cnet, Josh Lowensohn said, “What I really like about this tool is that you can continue to do all the normal things with highlighted text you’d normally do, including dragging it off into other programs or open windows, or using keyboard and contextual shortcuts to copy. It also does not always come up when highlighting text that’s in a form, meaning you can keep it installed without interrupting your usual work flow, however this was hit or miss. It came up on certain form fields, but not in others.”

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