I've recently made the switch to Firefox as my default browser on Android, for convenient syncing, as it's my default browser on my Linux desktop. there's one ingenious Chrome feature I miss in my mobile experience. that is the 'Contextual Search' or 'Touch to Search'. I think it can be done better in Firefox mobile.
it's a multifunctional bar that pops from the bottom (within a convenient thumb-reach), that can do numerous things:
- run a quick search, on top of your viewed tab, of a highlighted term.
- display a dictionary definition of the highlighted term (incredibly useful when reading articles). or if a whole sentence is selected, it shows a full translation of it to your language.
- open links in a pop up preview panes (which is very time saving when browsing through a blog/magazine or doing a research, when you want to peek into a page or article to see if it's for your liking).
edit, a suggestion I came up with:
would love to hear your thoughts 🙂
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