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Quick searches in Safari

If you want to perform a quick web search in Safari of text that is on your screen, copy the text from your screen and drag it to the Safari icon on your Dock. This will open a Safari window and it will perform a web search of the text you dragged onto the dock using the default search engine you have configured for Safari.
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Categories: Mac safari search shortcut
Added: on Jun 25, 2008 at 9:26 am
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