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IMDB Movie Review Shortcut

Martin Brinkmann — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:43:13 +0000

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.

Update: IMDB Movie Review Shortcut has been discontinued. An alternative is the excellent Search IMDB add-on for Firefox.

IMDB Movie Review Links

Martin Brinkmann — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:09:08 +0000

IMDB, the Internet Movie Database, is the authority website on the Internet when it comes to information and reviews about movies. It offers an incredible amount of information about past, present and future movies including movie ratings, the list of actors and directors, in depth movie reviews, images and more.

Many users like to look-up movie information when they are browsing on other websites. This can be on shopping sites like Amazon or eBay, forums where movies are discussed or general websites that offer movie recommendations or lists. One usually would have to copy the title of the movie, open the IMDB website, paste the movie title in the search form and hit enter to retrieve the information about the movie.

The extension IMDB Movie Review for the Firefox web browser optimizes the process. It adds an option to the Firefox right-click menu that will directly perform a search for the selected phrase on IMDB thus eliminating the need to copy and paste the information.

The Firefox add-on IMDB Movie Review is compatible with Firefox 2.x and 3.0.x versions but unfortunately not with the latest 3.5x betas. It was however not a problem to force compatibility with the Nightly Tester Tools.

Update: IMDB Movie Review has been discontinued. The add-on is no longer available at the Mozilla Firefox add-on repository. Search IMDB is an alternative that is compatible with all recent versions of the web browser. The extension offers the very same functionality.