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Is There a "Copy (Text) and Search on Firefox" From Windows?

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Is There a "Copy (Text) and Search on Firefox" From Windows? I literally have to copy text, file names and program names from Windows and do do searches on them. Is there a way I can select file names and right Click Search Using Firefox via Windows?

Is There a "Copy (Text) and Search on Firefox" From Windows? I literally have to copy text, file names and program names from Windows and do do searches on them. Is there a way I can select file names and right Click Search Using Firefox via Windows?

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You could consider using something like AutoHotkey ("AHK") or other system level macro program.

Let's assume your macro program can grab the current selection when you press a hotkey, or that it can use whatever is on the clipboard, and feed it to a command line such as:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -search "your text"

No idea whether it can grab the name of a selected file, but I think it's worth a look because the AHK community is very creative.

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I don't fully understand your question. Can you give an example?

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If the content is in a file that you can open in a Firefox tab then you can select text and use the right-click context menu to do a search with the default search engine.

If you have specific data on the clipboard then you can possibly use the search bar and paste the content in that toolbar.

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Vald lösning

You could consider using something like AutoHotkey ("AHK") or other system level macro program.

Let's assume your macro program can grab the current selection when you press a hotkey, or that it can use whatever is on the clipboard, and feed it to a command line such as:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -search "your text"

No idea whether it can grab the name of a selected file, but I think it's worth a look because the AHK community is very creative.

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jscher2000 said

You could consider using something like AutoHotkey ("AHK") or other system level macro program. Let's assume your macro program can grab the current selection when you press a hotkey, or that it can use whatever is on the clipboard, and feed it to a command line such as: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -search "your text" No idea whether it can grab the name of a selected file, but I think it's worth a look because the AHK community is very creative.

Wow that was supper Helpful, Yes exactly what I was looking for. Thank Jscher . I have little Program for Windows "CopyFilenames" which I been using for years but wonder why there wasn't a Search Browser with that.