we have a working website with our own search and want to make a Firefox browser add-on that allows a user to highlight the text on any webpage and send the query to our server, return the search results in a window
The add on works like this:
1) highlight text on any web page
2) right click the mouse and a category menu appears which the user selected
3) send the category and query to our server (it hits existing search scripts we already have that work on our website that return XML result)
4) returns the search results to the user on the page they are on (or in a new tab, window or ajax pop up (result can be shared via email)
You must be familiar with Javascript, XUL, JSON, CSS, and have done cross-browser extensions before. Please send URLs to examples On Firefox, Chrome or IE official add on sites
The job isn't very difficult since it taps our existing web search functions and results.
## Deliverables
see examples on Firefox of--
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## Platform
web browser (firefox)