Firefox Drag And Drop Search

Firefox offers many ways to perform searches. It displays a search bar on the top right by default, provides access to keywords that can be used to search and has lots of third party add-ons that add search to the right-click context menu.

The Drag & DropZones extension for Firefox is different and at the same time very convenient because of the way the searches are initiated. It basically comes down to this. The Firefox screen will be divided up into 12, 36 or 64 squares each containing a so called drop zone which will perform a search or command.

It is up to the user if he wants to work with big drop zones or smaller ones which solely depends on the number of search engines and Firefox commands that he adds to the grid. A search consists of selecting an item on a website, dragging it to the square of the desired search engine or command and dropping it in that square.

The grid is shown when dragging elements around including the favicon and name of the service configured in each grid making identification easy.

Drag & DropZones is providing access to all search engines of the Firefox search bar by default which are all shown in the options and positioned on the grid. New search engines can be added by adding them to the Firefox search bar which would enable them in Drag & DropZones as well. The only way of removing a search engine from the grid is to remove it from the search bar.

Besides adding and configuring search engines it is possible to add commands as well like saving an image, copy the image location or opening the link in a new window. All commands of the right-click context menu are available and can be configured in the grid as well.

The Firefox extension comes with a button that can be placed in a toolbar that can turn the extension on or off.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Thursday October 23, 2008 -
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