Add any website’s search box to Firefox’s search bar
Yesterday, I gave you two tips on how to add many dictionaries to your browser’s search box. Now, there’s more: you can also add **any** website with a search box, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, blogs, newspaper websites etc. etc. This will open infinite possibilities for a translator’s terminology searches. And the tool that makes it all possible is Add to Search Bar, a Firefox add-on.
It works like this:
- 1 You simply install the add-on by clicking here.
- 2 Restart Firefox.
- 3 Now, whenever you visit a website with a search box, just click with the right mouse button on the box and then click on “Add to Search Bar”.
- 4 In your Firefox search bar you’ll see the icon of the website you just added. Enter a search term and press “Enter”, just as you would normally do with Firefox’s default search engine (Google). Of course, you can alternate between several search engines. Just select the one you wish to search in a given moment and hit “Enter”.
Click on the image below to watch a tutorial (with the New York Times website as an example):
Tip: you can also add fidusinterpres.com’s search box to your search bar! This will enable you to quickly search this blog’s content without having to first type its address. 
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Hallo Fabio,
Ralf
vielen Dank für die Vielzahl Deiner nützlichen Hinweise!
Ich habe also jetzt “Brockhaus” als Option als Suchmaschine …nur wenn ich nach “Philipp” suche ergibt die Suche “keine Treffer”…auf der homepage von Brockhaus selbstverständlich dutzende Philipinhos e Filipãos….
Hi Ralf,
bei mir geht’s problemlos mit Brockhaus. Versuch mal mit meinem zweiten Tipp von gestern. Hier ist ein Link, wo du die Brockhaus-Suchmaschine erfolgreich installieren kannst.
Viel Spaß!
Olá, Fabio,
muito boa dica. Não consegui instalar o plug-in, pois (ainda) incompatível com minha versão do Firefox. De qualquer modo, uma megamão na roda para as intermináveis pesquisas inerentes ao nosso ofício.
Tenho usado a dica proposta por Luciano ES no fórum Trad-prt. Quem não abre mão do mouse e detesta memorizar combinações de teclas e códigos, deve se dar bem com a solução por você proposta. Para quem usa bastante o teclado, porém, a solução apresentada pelo Luciano é excelente, recomendo!
Abraço
Marcos