SlimSearch
Everything is hypertext and clickable!Using several search engines, and via a simple right-click menu, SlimSearch effectively takes any piece of text whatsoever on a Webpage and transforms it into hypertext.Highlight with the mouse any text in your browser, then right-click to search it on the Web. You can do normal searches, dictionary searches, address searches, Froogle, etc.Google is extensively used for most of the searches, but other specialized search engines are used too.Current searches:- Google: normal seach, exact phrase, dictionary- Google Images- Google News- Froogle- Google Finance- Google Local- Google Maps- Google Video- Google Scholar- eBay- YouTube- Urban Dictionary- Wikipedia- IMDb (Internet Movie Database)- NetflixIf you find a non-clickable URL on a page, SlimSearch can help with that too - highlight the URL, right-click, go to SlimSearch and choose Go to this URL.The focus is on simplicity of utilization: less is more.Visit the "addon's homepage" link at the bottom of this page for a quick tutorial on SlimSearch.
Supported
versions: Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.* ALL
Notes / Comments: To Do:- add some more search options (see below)- enable the user to enable/disable entries in the search tools list- enable the user to add new entries to the search tools list- make SlimSearch obey the browser setting w.r.t. opening new tabs in the foregound or the background- enable SlimSearch to do searches on text selected in text entries in forms- pretty menus, maybe with icons?Suggestions for future search engines to add:- mininova.org- wiktionary- Google Patents- Amazon
Categories: Search Tools

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