536696 - Keyboard shortcut to streamline google search for highlighted text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233612

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Warren Harris]

I'm surprised that one of the operations I do most with firefox is so obtuse to perform. To search google for some text that appears on a web page one must either: 

select the text
type Cmd-C to copy
type Cmd-T for a new tab
type Tab to get to search box (or Cmd-K) 
type Cmd-V to paste
type Return to perform search 

or:

select the text
click the right mouse button (or hold down Ctl key and click mouse -- I'm on a mac, so it takes 2 hands!)
click menu item "Search Google for '...'"
click the tab of the newly created tab window to get search results

What I want:

select the text
type Cmd-E (or something not taken already)
immediately see page with search results
  - whether this is a new tab, or loaded on top of the current window, I don't care (could be a pref)



I've tried adding a shortcut for this with the Mac's Keyboard & Mouse (Keyboard Shortcuts tab) control panel, but this fails because (a) there is no menu item in FF for "Search Google" (only the right-mouse menu item and the name changes depending on the selected text), and (b) I'm not sure FF works with these shortcuts anyway.

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Hi Warren. Thanks for taking the time to report this!
This particular problem has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further issues you find.