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Bug 724919 - search Google for "...selected text" or Search Duckduckgo for "...selected text"
search Google for "...selected text" or Search Duckduckgo for "...selected text"
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 663545
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: General
3.11.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-02-21 23:51 UTC by Asif Ali Rizvan
Modified: 2015-07-19 01:57 UTC
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Description Asif Ali Rizvan 2014-02-21 23:51:39 UTC 
Please add a plugin or right-click context item to search for selected text using search-engine; 

this is really a small yet very used feature; especially while reading a website, we need to lookup and search for some keywords or names, etc. and this will really make using gnome-web more fun!

firefox shows on right click for selected text:
Search Google for "...selected text" 

I would really appreciate this feature enhancement. Thanks.
Comment 1 Eddy Castillo 2014-08-13 19:38:58 UTC 
I also would like this feature in epiphany.

Currently what I do is:

- Select text
- Right click > Copy
- Open new tab
- Right click on address bar > Paste
- Enter

Too many steps for something I use too often. Approximately 8 times per hour, as I read several articles online.

This feature would reduce the steps to:

- Select text
- Right click > Search text in [search-engine]

Or you could implement "Paste and Go" (like Firefox) in the "address bar" to make it less painful, but I think this is for another bug report.

Is it possible to implement this or is not as simple as it seems?
Comment 2 Eddy Castillo 2015-07-18 21:56:17 UTC 
This bug should be closed as this feature was already implemented on Bug 663545
Comment 3 Michael Catanzaro 2015-07-19 01:57:59 UTC 
Looks like I'm not the only one who accidentally reports the same thing twice. :p

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 663545 ***