Drag and drop text to search in Firefox

Apr 25, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: rkchang

This may be an obvious one, but I haven't seen it documented elsewhere, nor in my search of this site. Anyway, drag and drop any chunk of text (from any program) to the search field in Firefox, and Firefox will search for that phrase using whatever search engine it has been set to.

For example, if you are typing a report on Napoleon in Microsoft Word, you can check the Wikipedia entry (assuming you have the Wikipedia search engine installed, and it's set as the Firefox default) by simply dragging the text "Napoleon" to the search field in any open Firefox window.

[robg adds: This also works in Camino, but not Safari or OmniWeb (nor probably any of the other WebKit-based browsers).]

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