Searching in Firefox
Firefox has a wonderful search feature with a built-in searchbar, downloadable plug-ins, etc... And I've totally stopped using it. I just found Web Search Pro. It is a replacement for the built-in search plug-in (you replace it by customizing the toolbar).
It provides many new features including allowing nested menus of search engines. For example, you can have a "General" menu item that includes "Google", "Yahoo!", and "about.com". So when you choose your search engine, you can either select a specific engine, or you can select "General" which will run the multiple searches in order.
It has a "quick search" feature, type Control-Q and then you pick your search engine and word, no need to use the mouse and the toolbar.
Web Search Pro has a feature I've never seen before in any other program called "drop zones". WSP divides the screen into a 4x4 matrix. You can select a search engine (or an entire menu of search engines) for each item in the matrix. After highlighting text, if you drag it the 4x4 matrix of search engines appears over the page you are on and you can drop the text into the appropriate box initiating the search with the associated engine.
All-in-all, WSP seems to allow lots of customization for searching and also seems to really reduce mouse and keyboard movements for searching, perhaps the most common use of the Web.
on my desk. I haven't even opened it as the package has some very entertaining text on it.
