Chrome has added an awesome new feature (as of Version 116.0.5845.112 (Official Build) (64-bit)) – sidebar search (official name???); select some text -> rclick -> Search for <selected> in Google *NEW*:
this opens a Google search in a narrow sidebar to the right (configurable search engine? nope) configurable local & size? nope!):
This is brilliant! Very close to what I was wanting (and may have suggested to Chrome devs??); for ~80% of things I want to lookup, a small side-panel is all that’s needed. this keeps my focus on the main page, whereas the “open in new tab” or :open in new window” is too jarring?? to my reading.
A couple of video examples (are these useful without narration or notes; I would like to do minimal to now editing or narration??)
Looking up IMBD or Rotten Tomatoes results for movies is ridiculously easy now. (should also note the text/graphics dichotomy illustrated here… luckily the webpage gave us text as well as images (posters) of the shows; if they had just given the images I wouldn’t be able to swipe -> rclick…).
All I wanted to know is how much this new tax is; swipe, rclick, BOOM!
Seems like it’s in a neat little box.