[sdiy] Great search engine tool

[cheater cheater]

Forgot to add the URL for the addon.

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchfrompopuporcontextmenu/
Chrome, Safari, etc:
https://github.com/YoshifumiFuyuno/Search-from-Popup-or-ContextMenu/wiki/Instructions#how-to-install-on-chromium-based-browsers-such-as-google-chrome

On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 3:24 PM cheater cheater
<cheater00social at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Our work requires a lot of searching on various sites, and a lot of
> the search engines we use work with POST rather than GET, so browsers
> don't really support them well.
>
> SPC allows you to search on GET and POST as well as do other things
> based on JavaScript you can enter yourself. POST is important for
> searching forums. JavaScript code can be useful if you're doing
> something really special.
>
> Adding a search engine is easy, go to the website, set your search
> options, right click the search field and select "SPC - Add search
> engine". You can go to the add-on's options to change what the context
> menu looks like, turn the pop up on or off, etc.
>
> You can edit the menu to have a "multiple search" entry, which lets
> you search in multiple search engines at the same time, opening them
> in subsequent background tabs.
>
> The only search engine I've found so far that doesn't get
> auto-detected is DigiKey. To add DigiKey you can go to the options and
> add a search engine with the following options:
> Type: GET
> URL: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/result?keywords={searchTerms}
> Favicon: https://www.digikey.com/favicon.ico
>
> I found this out by going to the Network panel in Firefox Web
> Developer Tools, and then I ran a search.