Along with Google and Yahoo, Amazon is one of the most established websites. Those who often browse Amazon might find the Select and search for Amazon add-on a handy addition to the Firefox browser. That adds an Amazon search shortcut Firefox’s context menu.
Head over to the Mozilla add-ons website [1] to add the Select and search for Amazon extension to Firefox. Press the Add to Firefox button on the add-on’s page and then click Install Now. The extension is listed on Firefox’s add-on page (press Ctrl + Shift + A) as willpowell8 (2).
Next, select some text on a website page and right-click to open the Firefox context menu. You’ll find that the context menu now includes a Search Amazon for selection option as in the shot below. Go ahead and press that option to open an Amazon search result page.
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The Amazon page will then open with a list of search results for the text you selected. Consequently, the text is effectively a search box keyword. Here are a few keywords that you can try the Select and search for Amazon add-on out on:
- Laptops
- Windows games
- PlayStation 4
- Tablets
- Amazon Kindle
- Apple Mac
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Without a doubt, this extension adds a great Amazon search shortcut to Firefox. Now you can browse Amazon without opening the website from your favorites or entering keywords into the site’s search box.