Hyperwords Hacks for Firefox

Hyperwords. Metaphysically it does what it says on the tin. It’s a Firefox addon that adds a whole range of contextual right click menu items to anything you select in your browser window, allowing near instant, search, reference look up, “go” to a selected URL that hasn’t been properly linked, near instant translation between a dozen or more languages, and a whole lot more. Apparently, Stephen Fry just tweeted about it and so it’s trending on twitter.

I’ve been using Hyperwords for well over a year in Firefox and it’s the main reason that I haven’t switched to using the much faster and more straightforward Google Chrome as my default web browser (that and the lack of NoScript for Chrome).

Just select any text and choose a command. It’s really that simple. But, more than that for the Facebook and Twitter generation, Hyperwords has just added support for those two apps, which makes it a near perfect tool.