Comments on: Put Firefox Search Engines in Folders

By: fred

fred — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:55:42 +0000

I rarely use the Firefox search box directly. The extension “Super DragAndGo” [[addons.mozilla.org]] allows me to select any text on a page and then drag it — which opens a new tab with search results from the currently selected engine.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:13:57 +0000

Anonymous wrote:

More over, It would be very useful of we can have check boxes next to the engine name so we can look up the word(s) in many engines at time. If some know so such an extension, plz tell us ??

That's definitely an interesting idea. Unfortunately I don't know how you would display the results in an efficient manner.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:55:37 +0000

More over,
It would be very useful of we can have check boxes next to the engine name so we can look up the word(s) in many engines at time.
If some know so such an extension, plz tell us ??

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:27:59 +0000

Carl wrote:

Inferno_str1ke wrote:
type a query and hit Enter or Alt+Enter if I want it in a new tab.
I too use keywords for all my searches, but I didn’t know about Alt+Enter to open a new tab. That comment alone made this post worth it. I can already see my productivity (or lack thereof as the case may be) skyrocketing.

I may have to write up a separate post on that so more people are aware. Good call!

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:24:22 +0000

Inferno_str1ke wrote:

type a query and hit Enter or Alt+Enter if I want it in a new tab.

I too use keywords for all my searches, but I didn't know about Alt+Enter to open a new tab. That comment alone made this post worth it. I can already see my productivity (or lack thereof as the case may be) skyrocketing.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:10:23 +0000

epiac1216 wrote:

I use Firefox search engine every I need to search for information while posting a blog entry. Normally I use Wikipedia search engine which is excellent. If that doesn’t work, then I switch to Google. 99.9% of the time these two search engines will satisfy my needs.

Sounds like what my use normally is, but I just use keywords for those two.

Inferno_str1ke wrote:

At one time I’d have jumped at this but for half a year I’ve not used the Firefox search box. For about four months I was using the Google Toolbar search box exclusively, but now I’ve even dropped that in favour of keyword searches. I just hit Alt+D to jump to the URL box, type g,w,v,i,f for Google, Wikipedia, Google Video, Google Images and Facebook respectively, type a query and hit Enter or Alt+Enter if I want it in a new tab. I can do the whole thing without using the mouse or even looking at the screen, much faster than selecting a search from the menu.

Wow, you're almost just like me! I have all of those same keywords setup except for the Facebook one, plus I have Yahoo under "y".

By: Lola

Lola — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:52:19 +0000

This is useful to me. I have near 15 search extensions, so it’s nice to be able to organize them.

By: Inferno_str1ke

Inferno_str1ke — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:48:14 +0000

At one time I’d have jumped at this but for half a year I’ve not used the Firefox search box. For about four months I was using the Google Toolbar search box exclusively, but now I’ve even dropped that in favour of keyword searches. I just hit Alt+D to jump to the URL box, type g,w,v,i,f for Google, Wikipedia, Google Video, Google Images and Facebook respectively, type a query and hit Enter or Alt+Enter if I want it in a new tab. I can do the whole thing without using the mouse or even looking at the screen, much faster than selecting a search from the menu.

By: epiac1216

epiac1216 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:53:32 +0000

@Ryan:

I use Firefox search engine every I need to search for information while posting a blog entry. Normally I use Wikipedia search engine which is excellent. If that doesn’t work, then I switch to Google. 99.9% of the time these two search engines will satisfy my needs.

I don’t need a great deal of search engines to justify the Organize Search Engine extension. Maybe there are academics or college students that need to research great amounts of information who will need such an Add-on. Preparing a college research thesis is a good example.

Regards,

Omar.-