Hyperwords is a new Firefox extension that provides an incredible range of actions you can perform on selected text on any page you can open in your browser. Options include search, reference look up, mapping, tagging, blogging, and e-mailing. I love the power!

What I didn't love in the early beta releases was Hyperwords popping its menu every time I selected some text. Simply stated, it got in my way. I mentiond this to the developers and they assured me hat the official release would provide control over how the menu was invoked. I'm happy to report that Hyperwords now provides a number of options to manage the menu's appearance (see image below).

Every option in Hyperwords has a single letter shortcut key associated with it so you can quickly invoke a particular operation by a series of letters to execute the command you wish to select. For example, if I want to tag a page in del.icio.us, I simply tap g, p, d.


Hyperwords is free and currently works in Firefox 1.5 on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. An Internet Explorer version is being considered.