How to add searches to right-click in Firefox

by blogrdoc

Problem: There are various pages you visit to query data (e.g. ARIN whois, an company internal web-frontend for querying databases) and your computer is cluttered with shortcuts and/or you are spending too much time visiting the webpage, waiting for it load, etc…

Solution: OpensearchFox plugin.

Example:

opensearchfox example

In the above screenshot, instead of visiting the ARIN whois website, I just highlight, right-click select it and boom - the query is made and shows up in a new tab. How to get it?

Obviously, this only works with firefox. Download the plugin here: OpensearchFox

Once you install it.

  • Visit the webpage and right click the textbox you put the query keyword in and right-click it (see screenshot below)
  • Select ‘Add OpenSearch plugin’. You will be asked some simple questions to complete the addition.

create search , opensearchfox

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  1. 3 Responses to “How to add searches to right-click in Firefox”

  2. By Leonidas on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply

    Very good website with interesting posts.

    Greetings from Germany

  3. By blogrdoc on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply

    Greetings, Leonidas! Very happy to have you as a reader!! I should mention that I use OpenSearch Plugin extensively at work. Throughout the day, I follow the progress of hundreds of computer-chip-product lots on our internal web system. If I ever need to query one of dozens of our internal databases, I just highlight and right-click. With these two brisk steps, a dizzying amount of information is literally available at my fingertips.

  4. By Leonidas on Mar 1, 2008 | Reply

    Sorry, the comment was saved in my browser and I was to fast…

    Thank you for your helpful answer.

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