Drag text to address bar to search

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Is there any way to enable functionality to drag text to the Firefox Address bar to search Google? I want Firefox to work like Chrome, in that respect.

From LifeHacker:

But what most people probably don’t know is that it works with text, as well. Dragging the words “Digital Painting” to the tab bar opens up a new tab that immediately performs a search for those two words (typically in Google, but it uses whatever your default search is set to).

I'm comfortable with working in about:config, and I'd rather not have to install an add-on, if possible.

Note: I don't like to use the Search box, so I've removed it. I want FF to be as Chrome as possible with a single integrated "omnibox" (in this respect).

Mateen Ulhaq

Posted 2011-05-29T00:45:55.947

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I don't think there is without using the search box. Is there a reason you're not using Chrome? :D – Vervious – 2011-05-29T04:39:18.317

@Nano I do use Chrome >90% of the time on Windows. But for some reason, Firefox seems a bit more nicely integrated for Ubuntu than Chrome, so I might be using it more and more on Ubuntu. (Chrome still pwns for Windows, though. :) ) – Mateen Ulhaq – 2011-05-29T05:38:41.043

) I see that's cool ahaha. – Vervious – 2011-05-29T06:35:03.737

Answers

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The Firefox equivalent of this is to select the word or phrase. Then drag & drop the text into search field in the upper right corner of the browser.

This will perform a search on the highlighted text in the tab you're currently in, through the last used search engine selected.

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Posted 2011-05-29T00:45:55.947

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I don't use the Search box. (I've removed it.) – Mateen Ulhaq – 2011-05-29T03:12:23.430

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