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I did some quick research and it appears that it isn’t possible to create a custom button for FF without packaging it as an extension, or using a third-party button manager addon (like Custom Buttons 2).

Why this obviously desirable adaptation of a publicly accessible Google feature has been so elusive for Firefox 2, then 3, users is beyond me. Many thanks to White Shadow.

P.S. Would love to see a Firefox 3 toolbar button for it – that opens a pop-up site search input field for this search alone. The button offered above by ithinc isn’t for Firefox 3 as far as I can tell. Could we have one that does not require additional software (the way ithinc’s requires Custom Buttons 2)?

Thanks a lot.

Super DragAndGo is almost what I needed, although instead of drag, “Ctrl-Click” might have more universal appeal (MS Office hangover, u c).

And yes, I did mean plain text link, rather a contiguous block of text – isn’t the extra action of selecting that, a drag on our mouse entangled wrists (or the touch-pad chafed fingertips), especially when you are researching thousands of sites.

Regards,

ItsSri

Can you elaborate on that “anything on a browsed page” comment? A plaintext link would be one possibility; what else?

Edit : this addon might be similar to what you’re looking for.

I do quite a bit of web content research and I had been searching for something like this for ages; the closest I could get to was using the Yahoo toolbar, but it sucks! and many times, I installed it whenever I was desperate and uninstalled it as soon as it frustrated me. Now, you have made my day.

This is the exact phrase I used on google today – “firefox extension to search in current website” – and your site was listed second. I wonder how I missed it earlier?

Another plugin/extension that is wanting is:
“Ctrl+Click” on anything on a browsed page = parse a link from that anything and open in another tab

If you could do it, you are sure to be deluged with …

Hey! BTW, has Abhishek sent you at least a picture of his girlfriend

ItsSri