{"id":1232,"date":"2007-06-26T18:24:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/index.php\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2011-07-28T17:16:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:16:30","slug":"firefox-search-web-for-with-text-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2007\/06\/26\/firefox-search-web-for-with-text-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Solved: &#8220;Search Web for&#8230;&#8221; with text boxes (Firefox)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do my searching abilities suck ass, or is it true that nobody on the Internet has, prior to this, written anything about how infuriating it is that Firefox&#8217;s contextual search (the &#8220;Search Web for&#8230;&#8221; option behind your right button menu) doesn&#8217;t work with text inside a textbox? Go ahead, try it.<\/p>\n<p>Is it, and the fact that there seems to be no extension to fix this, due to how tough it is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/2006\/05\/06\/finding-the-textarea-selection\/\">home in on a textarea selection<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>And why does a simple <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/search?q=%22search+for%22&amp;status=4\">quoted search phrase<\/a> break Mozilla.org&#8217;s results navigation? (Try navigating to page 2 or other pages of results: neither the page numbers nor the Next\/Previous links work.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/138\">StumbleUpon extension<\/a> seems to have no problem using text from within a textbox. I think I&#8217;ll have look inside it to see if I can cook up a fix for this issue myself.<\/p>\n<p><ins datetime=\"2007-06-27T07:55:20+00:00\">27.6. 10:56<\/ins>: Here you go: <a href='http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/files\/2007\/06\/search-web-extended.xpi'>Search Web Extended<\/a>, a quick little extension to make the contextual Google search work with textboxes too. No warranty, no guarantees, no nothing as usual. Hard-coded to work only with 2.0.* versions of Firefox.<\/p>\n<p><ins datetime=\"2008-05-24T13:51:56+00:00\">24.5. 2008 16:52<\/ins>: I&#8217;ve upgraded the maximum version accepted by the plugin to cover Firefox 3 as well, since it seems to need nothing beyond that to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do my searching abilities suck ass, or is it true that nobody on the Internet has, prior to this, written anything about how infuriating it is that Firefox&#8217;s contextual search (the &#8220;Search Web for&#8230;&#8221; option behind your right button menu) doesn&#8217;t work with text inside a textbox? Go ahead, try it. Is it, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,28],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bugsglitches","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}