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A Search Google contextual menu
Authored by: m3dusa on Nov 17, '10 02:58:05PM

For me, the extra menu-items does not appear in neither Mail nor TextEdit. They appear in Chrome – but that really defeats the purpose, since Chrome already has a "search google for". I did ofcourse log out and back in.
Any suggestions?



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A Search Google contextual menu
Authored by: petpirepete on Nov 18, '10 11:08:43AM

It works for me but I use Leopard. With Snow Leopard, you can use Automator to add Service:

Here's how you do it. Open Automator, select Service from the popup that appears. At the top of the window, make sure it says "Service receives selected text in any application", and that the 'replaces text' checkbox is off. now add the action Run Shell Script (you can find that in the 'Utilities' section). Leave the shell as /bin/bash, set the 'pass input' pulldown menu to say as arguments, delete the default for-loop text that appears, and enter open -a FireFox "http://www.google.ca/search?q=$1" into the text area. save the service3 with whatever name you like. This service will use Firefox to search for selected text in google. if you want to use a different browser, replace -a FireFox with whatever (-a Camino, -a Opera, -a SeaMonkey). If you want to choose a browser at run time that will take an extra action - ask if you can't figure it out.

Hugo

(Thanks to tw, from this forum topic: http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=111762 )



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