If you are like me you use IMDB to look up movies that you read or heard about. The process to look up these movies was a bit tedious if you originated from a different website, say a shopping site, forum or website that listed one or multiple movie titles. To read the review on IMDB one had to copy the movie title from the website, open IMDB in the web browser, paste the movie title in the search box at IMDB and locate the correct result.
IMDB Movie Review is a Firefox add-on that aids the Internet user in this task. It basically offers a shortcut to the IMDB site by selecting the movie title, right-clicking the selection and triggering the IMDB Review link that is appearing.
This shortcut actually works not only with movie titles but also other information that are stored at IMDB including artist biographies, directors or tv shows. The add-on will open a new tab and load the IMDB website in it or use an already existing tab if IMDB is already loaded.
The add-on does not provide any other options beyond that functionality. It nevertheless could be interesting for users who look up movie information regularly on IMDB. IMDB Movie Review is compatible with all Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 versions (heck it is even compatible with Firefox 1.5x). It can be downloaded from the Mozilla Firefox website.
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It’s much easier than installing an additional firefox add-on
- go to any IMDB page
- right click inside the search box
- Select “add keyword for this search” (I used “i”, without the quotes)
Now all you have to do is hit “CTRL-T” to open up a new tab. The cursor will focus into the URL bar and you simply type “i actor/title/series”, again without the quotes.
examples:
i costner
i district9
IMDB will immediately load up either a search results page if it couldn’t isolate one response to the query, or in the event of the 2nd example, it will directly load up the movie’s home page.
@nero
Thanks for that; though I’m a regular visitor at IMDB for quite some yrs, I hear this for the 1st time. Definetely trying it out, as I don’t like having a lot of add-ons in Firefox.
The add-on is been up only for a few days as an experimental one and has zero user comments; will have to wait & see how it goes.
That’s another idea firefox steal from Opera, years ago, you can add your own search to Opera, like IMDB, or your favorite blog, or wathever you want, then you just right clic the movie title, actor or other info and select search with imdb, here you go, i use this years ago, is not new. or exclusive to firefox addons, Opera is the most mature, proffesional and innovative browser out there, sorry firefox fanboys.
Just add IMDB to the list of search engines in the “Context Search” extension for FireFox.
That way all you have to do is right-click…no typing.
Tons of other search engines for “Context Search” can be found @ http://mycroft.mozdev.org/
i live in china where there are many websites blocked by what is sometimes referred to as “the great firewall”. being an avid imdb user, i was really bummed out when the gov’t recently blocked this site from the country’s internet. i read that installing this “add-on” (the first i have ever installed) would be a way to access imdb indirectly, somehow.
this is where i got the advice:
http://www.findmysoft.com/news/Bad-News-for-the-Moviegoer-IMDb-Blocked-in-China/
i seem to have installed the add-on feature as it does appear when i right-click. but nothing loads- neither a new tab, nor does one i have already open re-load or anything.
can someone please tell me what i’m doing wrong?
does anyone know?
help.