Clusty Toolbar for Firefox

Version 1.0.5

The Clusty Toolbar for Firefox offers several unique features to help you find information more quickly and easily than ever before. These include:

Search and Cluster results from several search engines
ClustyClips to get dictionary and encyclopedia definitions for any term on a page
Mini-Mode to save valuable screen space
Query Catcher to easily supplement your favorite search engine with one click
Standard Features & Preferences options to customize your toolbar

With a fast, free download, you can get clustered search results from anywhere on the Web.

Search and Cluster the Web

View clustered results from several search engines with the Clusty Firefox Toolbar. Simply enter your search terms in the text box and hit the Enter key or click the Search button. You can also try these convenient shortcuts:

Recent Searches: Repeat a recent search by clicking the down arrow to the right of the search box. This shows a list of your most recent queries; click one to repeat the search.
Drag-and-Drop Search: Perform searches by selecting some text on a web page and then dragging and dropping that text into the toolbar search box. The query will be performed automatically.
Context Search: Select some text on a web page, right click on that selection, then select one of several options like web+ and encyclopedia from the pop-up menu to automatically run a context search on that word or phrase.

ClustyClips

For an un-interrupted and convenient user experience, ClustyClips offers you an encyclopedia or dictionary lookup without taking you away from your current webpage. Simply right-click on any word or phrase on the page and choose one of the options with the ClustyClip icon . Relevant info will appear in a frame on your current webpage!

The Encyclopedia Clips, from our index of the Wikipedia, provide general-purpose knowledge about a highlighted name, object, or concept.

The Dictionary Clips provide word definitions from WordNet. In addition to using right-click for the Dictionary Clip you can also hold down Control and double click on the word.

Mini-Mode

We respect users' desire to maximize available screen space. In Mini-Mode, the Clusty Toolbar collapses into the Firefox search area and uses queries from the Firefox search box, occupying no additional toolbar space.

Click the Mini-Mode button to instantly collapse the toolbar into Mini-Mode.
To restore the full toolbar, click the Full-Mode button.

While in Mini-Mode, all toolbar functionality continues in the background. To enter a query, simply type it in the Firefox search box, click the Clusty Mini button, and choose a source for your query. Firefox's standard search box behavior is not interrupted if you simply press Enter.

Alternatively, you can hold Control or Shift while pressing Enter to select Clusty as your search source.

Query Catcher

If you complete a search on sites such as Yahoo!, Google, MSN, WiseNut, Teoma, AltaVista, and others, the Clusty toolbar will automatically detect your query and insert the same terms into the toolbar search box. If you can't find what you're looking for in the long ranked list of results returned by these conventional search engines, simply click the Search button in the Clusty Toolbar!

Standard Features & Preferences

The toolbar's basic operations behave like our Clusty Toolbar for Internet Explorer, bringing a familiar interface to Mozilla Firefox:

The Clusty button offers fast access to Clusty.com. From the Clusty button, you can also change your preferences for the toolbar, update the toolbar automatically, or uninstall the toolbar.
Simply type a query into the search box and press Enter to search Clusty's Web+ tab. Or, to narrow your search, select another source from the Search menu.
With the toolbar's complete integration into Firefox's tabbed browsing, you can select whether your Clusty searches open in the current tab, in a new tab, or in a new window. We also respect Firefox's standard shortcuts:
- Hold Control at any time to open a search in a new tab.
- Hold Shift at any time to open a search in a new window.
You can highlight your search terms wherever they appear on a page.
By clicking a word-find button, you can instantly jump to any search term in the page.

Changing Preferences

From the Clusty menu, select Preferences.

General

Search box width: Adjust the width of the toolbar's search box.
Toolbar searches: Select the destination for toolbar searches, and select whether the drop-down destination list appears on the toolbar.
History: Limit the toolbar's query history, or disable the history. You may also control the behavior when an item is selected from the history. To clear the history, clear the "Keep History" checkbox, click OK, and restart Firefox.
Show Highlight button: Show or hide the Highlight button on the toolbar.
Show word-find buttons: Show or hide the word-find buttons from the toolbar.
Insert queries from other search engines into search box: When this option is enabled and you visit other common search engines, the toolbar will conveniently insert your query into its search box. This allows you to use toolbar features such as Highlight, Word-Find, and History. In addition, if you don't find what you're looking for at another search engine, you can easily search any of Clusty's sources with the same query.

Sources

Display on the Search button: The selected sources will be available on the Search button. In Mini-Mode, these sources are available on the Clusty Mini button.
Display when you right-click in a document: The selected sources will be displayed on context menus within Web pages.

Mini-Mode

Allow mini-mode: Toggle the mini-mode controls.
Use Clusty on search-box queries when you press: Control whether Clusty responds to search requests when you type Control-Enter, Shift-Enter, or just Enter.

Clusty Clips

Enable Clusty Clips: Controls whether Clusty Clips are available.
Context-menu sources: The selected sources will be offered in context menus when you right-click.
Maximum clip height: Clusty Clips adjust to fit their content. You can set a maximum height here.
When you hold Control and right-click: Choose whether this key combination opens an Encyclopedia clip, a Dictionary clip, or neither. By default, this does neither.
When you hold Control and double-click: Choose whether this key combination opens an Encyclopedia clip, a Dictionary clip, or neither. By default, this opens a Dictionary clip.