User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040731 Firefox/0.9.1+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040731 Firefox/0.9.1+ I think I have a nice idea: :-) If you select a word in a web-page and right-click, in the conext-menu is an item "Search Web for "[SELECTED TEXT]"". I guess it does the same like when entering the word in the search-bar while google is selected. But it's possible to have also other search-plugins installed. I suggest that for all search-plugins, there should be such an context-menu item available. So the user could easily select a word and search for it at ebay or amazon or whatever he has installed as search-plugin. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:

[moved to component general, because of the conext-menu improvement. feel free to re-assign the component.]

I think that the names of the context-menu items should be directly derived from the corresponding name in the search bar: "Search [SEARCHENIGNE-NAME] for "[SELECTED TEXT]"" for example the goole item sould then be named: "Search Google for "[SELECTED TEXT]"" if the user has additionally an Amazon search-plugin installed and has selected the word "Linux", the following items should be available: - "Search Google for "Linux"" - "Search Amazon for "Linux""

(In reply to comment #2) typing error: "goole item" -> "google item"

Dupe of bug 232272. Whether it will be a context menu or something in the Options, isn't decided yet. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232272 ***

sorry, wrong bug

sorry, wrong bug

The Context Search extension will help you, but that won't be included in Firefox, see bug 248173. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248173 ***