See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW

For readers who use Firefox and IE8, I wanted your readers to be aware that Firefox has a version of Accelerators too, it is called “KALLOUT - Accelerators for Firefox” It’s available as a free add-on through Firefox. See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW

Selection-based search is really helpful. One GREAT feature of KallOut is BestGuess. The challenge with selection-based search is that the user has to figure out which one to apply to his selection. It’s a little clunky once you get more than two or three. KallOut does a super job figuring out which accelerator you need to use for a given selection-based search request. Kallout — Accelerators for Firefox is actually kind of spooky when it works so well.

Check it out! I agree that it’s a big step forward for the user to have the selection-based search bundled into the browser by default, however.

“KALLOUT - Accelerators for Firefox” is available through Mozilla at http://bit.ly/vJKbW

-EL