Back in 2007 I reviewed the Firefox extension Hyperwords which gave you access to a research context menu after selecting text on a website. You could use it to search in various search engines, encyclopedias or news sites. While I’m not 100% sure, I believe that the Liquid Information add-on is the successor of the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Add Text Link Information To Websites
Mashlogic is a popular Firefox add-on that adds text links that display information when hovered over. What makes the add-on interesting is the ability to customize what kind of information are provided. This ranges from usual sources such as Wikipedia, IMDB or Twitter to niche information such as a currency converter, job search, document search [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Hyperwords a Firefox Extension
One of my readers Rico posted a link to the excellent Hyperwords extension for Firefox in the comments of my article about the Easy Gestures extension and I was heading out immediately to take a look and see if the extension was really that good as he claimed it to be. I know that many of my readers have some gems up their sleeves that they seldom share but when they do I’m often in for a surprise.