Closed Bug 256739 Opened 20 years ago Closed 13 years ago

web search for text in message body

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 677421

People

(Reporter: ind.bugz01, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040809 Firefox/0.9.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040809 Firefox/0.9.3 it would be nice to be able to highlight some text in a message body and do a web search for it, just as you can in firefox. all this would have to do is call the default browser, passing it a google (or other) search URL. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
see also bug #154658 tbird will have to generate the http url, and then let the default browser handle it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Depends on: 154658
Ever confirmed: true
This would be incredibly useful. I was just about to file the same enhancement request.
QA Contact: front-end
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Ditto. I registered an account because for the millionth time I highlighted the text, and search was missing from the context menu....
There's plugins for TBird that you can install which provide this functionality, such as DictionarySearch or SearchWith.
This is happening in bug 677421.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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