August 21st, 2006 in Lifehack, Technology

Five Other Ways to Speed Up Firefox Search

Follow up on the last week post, Speed Up Your Search with Top Bookmarklets, lifehack.org readers suggested couple more quick ways to search with keywords in Firefox. For those who may not read our comment box regularly, I want to consolidate those in a post for you:

Use Context Menu: Highlight the word, right-click and select Search Web for “…” – JDB
Use Quicksearch: Use Alt-D to go to Address Bar, type “google keyword” and press enter. Go to Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> Quick Searches for customizing your quick searches. – MariusZ
Use Shortcut to go to Search Box: Press Ctrl-K to go to search box, and press ctrl-Up/Down to switch search options. – MicrowaveSafe
Hyperwords Extension: Get the extension, highlight a word and press Alt-LeftClick to bring up the search options. – BruceMagnus
DragdeGo Extension: Get DragdeGo, configure it with your own preference, highlight a word, and drag to different directions from the word to search different search engines. — PCL

Thanks for the contributions, lifehack.org readers! Those are great alternatives!

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Ben says on August 21st, 2006 at 1:55 pm

Even faster quicksearches: use ‘g’ as the keyword for Google. Type ‘g searchterm’ to find something. Saves 5 keystrokes.
Mariusz says on August 23rd, 2006 at 3:47 am

@Ben: Yes, that’s what I use — i use ‘g’ for Google, ‘gi’ for Google Images and ‘gr’ for Google Groups.
Frode Hegland says on August 31st, 2006 at 12:48 pm

Hi.

Thanks for mentioning Hyperwords™. A quick update.

We just released version 1.5 which adds a powerful Toolbar function.

This new version also addresses the issue of the menu popping up to frequently (which could make it a little annoying) by adding new Preferences so you can specify exactly how it should work.

In a month’s time version 2.0 will be launched, featuring full user customizability, as well as Microsoft Internet Explorer support.

Get this new version as well as more information at http://www.hyperwords.net

1.5 is borne out of user feedback and we’d be very grateful for any further thoughts and perspectives or questions. Please contact me via email ‘frode ‘at’ hyperwords.net’.

Frode Hegland
Project Director
The Hyperwords Company
http://www.hyperwords.net