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Quick searches in Firefox

If you want to do a web search for any word or phrase that you see on a web page when using Firefox, there is a very quick way to do so. Just highlight the word or phrase, then click on it and drag it up to the search bar in the browser. It'll then perform a search using your default search engine.
Rating: 100% positive, 2 total Votes
Categories: firefox browsers search shortcut
Added: on Apr 01, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Added By: foxnut
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