[Feature Request] open search in small preview window

[ItayHadas]

how about an option for opening the search in a small preview windows instead of a whole tab. an example for this was previously implemented by the great fastestsearch (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fastest-search/).

[CanisLupus]

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. :) I can't install Fastest Search on the current Firefox since it's not supported, so it's hard to see what it was. Was this a popup over the page? How big? Did it show the whole page zoomed out or simply a smaller viewport for the same page?

Cheers! Daniel

[ItayHadas]

please look at this video https://youtu.be/xVPRl27ixcs?t=4m32s the video starts right on time to see this preview window

I've waited for a while for someone to create something similar to fastestsearch. thanks so much!

[CanisLupus]

Thank you for the video. It's clearer now. :) And you're welcome! ;)

[k-s-s-75]

Hi Canis - nice to see a replacement for fastest search available. To add to jorjio's suggestion - it think it would be nice if it was possible to always send searches to the same tab in the same window. This would allow the user to put the search window up side-by-side with the main window and have search results always be refreshed in the "search" window. This would allow the user to stay on the page they are currently reading and every time they e.g. lookup a word in a dictionary, the search will appear in the same window . Currently the search will always create a new window or new tab.

So the use model would become

1. user is reading through a site
2. user finds a word to lookup on wikipeda
3. search appears in new window, with a tab dedicated to wikipedia
4. user can put the windows from (1) and (3) in whatever configuration they want on their screen (i.e. not done by the extension)
5. user finds other word to lookup, e.g. google image search
6. a new tab opens in window (3) with the search results
7. user finds another word to lookup on wikidia
8. search results appear in window (3) in the wikipedia lookup tab

Would this be doable?

Btw there is a currently plugin that implements jorjio's request called "in-page lookup".

Cheers. K

[CanisLupus]

Hi! Hmm... it is probably doable, although I don't know what would be the best way to achieve it.

Besides keeping track of the tab ID previously used for searching with each search engine, this would still be hard to communicate as an option to the user. Would it be a new value in the dropdown for "Left/middle/right mouse button click"? ("Open in engine-dedicated tab") What if you are just searching normally and don't want the search to behave like that?

This seems like a search pattern that you want to enable temporarily and then disable. A key modifier when clicking the engines would probably be better suited for this, but then it would also add complexity to the addon for a very specific thing (and if you'd have to press a key when searching you could arguably also just middle click a tab to close it ;)). Do you have any ideas in mind for usability?

Cheers! Daniel