{"id":8120,"date":"2009-04-30T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-add-custom-searches-to-firefox\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:23:23","slug":"how-to-add-custom-searches-to-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-add-custom-searches-to-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Add custom searches to Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing more time consuming and tedious as cutting and pasting words into search engines. If you have the Google Toolbar<\/a> installed in Firefox, do you know that you can create your own custom searches simply by right clicking on a word and selecting the site you’d like to search? Here’s how to:<\/p>\n

1. Right click on a search box that you’d like to integrate with Firefox. This could be absolutely any search-box on any webpage of your choosing.<\/p>\n

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2. Go to the bottom of the context menu and select Generate Custom Search…<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. In the Add Search Button<\/strong> dialog that appears, add the name of the search site (in this case “Softonic”) and add the URL of the site. Click Add<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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4. While browsing the net, right click on any word you’d like to search. Scroll down to More Searches<\/strong> and you’ll instantly be able to search the site you’ve added! No more laborious cutting and pasting text into search boxes.<\/p>\n

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There’s nothing more time consuming and tedious as cutting and pasting words into search engines. If you have the Google Toolbar installed in Firefox, do you know that you can create your own custom searches simply by right clicking on a word and selecting the site you’d like to search? Here’s how to: 1. Right … Continue reading “How to: Add custom searches to Firefox”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-8120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t