The most frustrating thing about Internet Explorer’s supposed dominance of the browser market isn’t the huge security holes that Microsoft’s shoddy coding allows in each release. It isn’t even the screwed up way IE renders the box model in CSS (though that’s pretty damn close). No, it’s the fact that all these nify plug-in bars, like the official ones from Yahoo! (their Firefox toolbar is in beta) and Google are only available for IE.
Finally, though, we have parity: Merriam-Webster Online has released a search bar plug-in for Firefox that will allow one-click searching of either their dictionary or their thesaurus.
How sweet it is, indeed.
Don’t have Firefox yet? Well why not? It’s free, and it’s the best browser on the planet. Go get it already!
Don’t you already use the integrated search bar function in Firefox? A quick check of mine shows that it searches Google, the IMDb, Wikipedia, the CDDB and a few others. More to the point, you can have unlimited numbers of these installed at once without using up screen space.
Some additional engines are at:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html