Probably One Of The Nicest Firefox Plugin You’ll Find

by Yan Susanto on May 31, 2008

hyperwords logo

Probably one of the nicest Firefox Plugin I have just discovered and got my attention is Hyperwords. It is a nifty Firefox plugin you’d not want to miss. It does much more than the conventional Firefox tool we’ve come to know. Hyperwords makes any website interactive and enhances users browsing experience to next level.

From Hyperlinks to Hyperwords

Hyperwords gives you a selection of choices in a pop-up contextual menu whenever you select or highlight any plain text or a block of text without the use of right-click. It fetches all the information on-the-fly right from your browser.

Here’s some of its interesting and cool features:

1. Search for Google
2. Search image or video from Flickr and YouTube
3. Search for People from Facebook, MySpace and Friendster
4. Look up for reference in Wikipedia, Dictionary.com and Thesaurus
5. One-click emailing
6. Copy the text to your blog as a draft – it works with both WordPress and Blogger
7. And many more – see the video demo

If you don’t like the way Hyperwords pop-up its menu every time you select some text, I know it can be quiet annoying at times, just change its setting from the contextual menu. I have set it to work only when I select the text and hit ‘Enter’. No more annoying pop-up.

What I love most

The best part of Hyperwords IMO is its translation feature. You select any block of text and HyperWords will do inline translation on-the-fly meaning the actual text on the webpage will be replaced translated in the language of your choice. Almost instantly and painlessly. Oh I love it. Here’s the preview screenshot,

Translated from English to Chinese using Hyperwords

Now if you are using Firefox and have never heard of Hyperwords, it’s time to download it now and experience a new level of interactive web browsing. You’ll love it for sure.

What do you think of Hyperwords? Firefox just got better, huh? Share your thoughts by leaving your comment below.

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{ 9 comments }

Rhys June 1, 2008 at 2:57 pm: Just tried this, and fallen in love already – the feature; “highlight a word(phrase) , go search,” is big for me.

Thanks for this great tip Yan!.
Yan June 1, 2008 at 4:17 pm: Personally this is one of the best Firefox plugin I have used. Glad you fall in love with it. So did I.
Silki June 7, 2008 at 1:52 pm: I had used it earlier, but got it off, as it clutters my contextual menu.
Anyways, nice read.

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Yan June 8, 2008 at 12:15 am: @Silki: Well, it won’t clutter your menu if you set it to display only upon certain action, say when hit F2 key.
rampantheart June 29, 2008 at 9:23 pm: Can’t wait to download it! I am going there straight away! Thanks for sharing the info!
Yan June 29, 2008 at 10:35 pm: @Ranjani: You’re welcome. If you find it useful, blog about it.
Erica DeWolf July 18, 2008 at 11:54 am: Great post- sounds like a great plugin! Unfortunately, I don’t have FF3 yet, as some of my plugins haven’t been made compatible yet. Do you know if there is a version for FF2? I looked but it seems there is only one for FF3. Thanks for sharing this tool!

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Yan July 18, 2008 at 12:05 pm: Hey Erica

I’m currently running FF Ver. 2.0.0.15 and Hyperwords seems to be very much compatible with it. So I’m not too sure if you have installed it yet but it works fine for me.

Anyway, glad you dropping in and thanks for the lovely comment. I hope you will join us more often here at thoushallblog.com.

C’ ya…
Erica DeWolf July 18, 2008 at 12:30 pm: I did not try downloading it, I assumed it wouldn’t work with FF2! Thanks for the info- I’ll download it and I’m sure it’ll work! Thanks again!

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