Mouse Gesture Help


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I had to wipe 1.0.7 of Firefox, with all of it's subdirectories, extensions, themes, etc. Then installed 1.5.0.2.

While I was reinstalling all of my favorite extensions, there's one extension that I can not seem to find again that enables me to do a text search to google by a simple mouse gesture.

For example:

I highlight a text word like "firefox", I go back to the end of the letter, while the text is still highlighted, I supress the left mouse button, scroll over the highlighted text word and viola! It opens a new window tab that takes the text word to google.com, then I proceed from there.

I found extensions like "Mouse Gesture" and "All-In-One_Gesture" from the official Mozilla website, but it doesn't do I wanted it to do. I had that feature on 1.0.7 for a long time, so I forgot the name of that extension.

If one of them was it, but for some reason, when I had it on 1.0.7, it was doing it as a "default" setting, but now someone changed it to something else, so I have no clue as to how to make it do that setting again.

Anyone know what I am talking about? Hope someone can point me to the right extension that can do what I am looking for. It's something I can ever do without.

Thanks

Yiz

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the only think i can think of is searching google for a clippet of its functions and maybe it will take you to a review of the plugin and maybe follow on to a download link?

Just a suggestion

Although you've probably already tried that

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Never seen it but seems like it'd be pretty useful.

I am moving this to the Mozilla (gecko) subforum however, maybe someone will see it there.

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It should be possible with Optimoz Mouse Gestures. I've been trying for the last two hours to get the right javascript code, but for some reason, it doesn't work. The code should be something like:

q=document.getSelection();
if(q)
location.href='http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q='+escape(q);

But I suck at Javascript, and I think it results in a crash. If anyone who knows what they're doing wants to give it a shot, they can probably get it working easily.

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