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ask dr. lj: adding dispatch actions to Thunderbird/Firefox for highlighted text?
Here's something I find myself doing often, on my GNOME and OSX desktops: copying, say, a ticket number from an email message or a web page, and then dropping it into a search form to bring up more information about that ticket. I already have bookmark shortcuts like "b ####" to bring up a Bugzilla page about a given ticket number.
It would be ten kinds of awesome if I could right-click on a highlighted region and have options like "Bugzilla lookup", "Siebel lookup", "RT lookup", etc., which would just pass that highlighted text to an appropriate keyword bookmark, and cut out one of those steps.
(Being able to do this from any app at all, like an xterm or an editor window, would be even better, but seems less likely to be feasible in either GNOME or OSX.)
Has anyone done anything like this with an XUL or Greasemonkey extension, or the like? Seen anything similar?
It would be ten kinds of awesome if I could right-click on a highlighted region and have options like "Bugzilla lookup", "Siebel lookup", "RT lookup", etc., which would just pass that highlighted text to an appropriate keyword bookmark, and cut out one of those steps.
(Being able to do this from any app at all, like an xterm or an editor window, would be even better, but seems less likely to be feasible in either GNOME or OSX.)
Has anyone done anything like this with an XUL or Greasemonkey extension, or the like? Seen anything similar?
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