These days you can find just about anything you need with a quick trip to Google. While making my rounds of the feeds I follow, I thought it would be useful for Firefox to have a right-click context menu that allows you to search the selected text to keep from having to select, copy, open a new tab, paste the query and hit enter. Not that it takes a whole lot of time, but this is about productivity right?
So in my quick search I found a browser plugin called Hyperwords. I would probably call Hyperwords a Swiss Army context menu. It’s extremely flexible and highly configurable.
The menu options are split into search, references, translations and conversions. Beyond your usual search engines, which was my intended purpose, I found a great deal more usability for sites like wikipedia, imdb, dictionary, thesaurus, etc.
When you have selected numbers, you get conversions for currency, temperature, weight, distance, volume and speed. With a simple right click in a search box on other sides you can add them to the menu as well.
At first install, it takes over your top right search box, which I personally disabled, but the configuration is nearly endless. It’s a quick painless install and makes your research browsing much more pleasant. I highly recommend the download.
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