Inquisitor search plugin now available for Firefox

by Jay Hathaway Oct 22nd 2008

Safari users have been enjoying the search-as-you-type extension Inquisitor for a long time, and now Firefox users can, too. Although it was originally developed independently for Safari by David Watanabe (creator of apps like Acquistion and Newsfire), it was acquired by Yahoo! back in May. Apparently, that resulted in a preview of a Firefox version, which seems to work just as well as its Safari counterpart. If you like the idea of instant search results, displayed as you type, give it a try.

Inquisitor for Firefox is still in preview, so you'll have to sign up or log in to download. Once installed, it goes in your list of search engines, and is enabled by default. If you decide you don't like it, just click the Inquisitor icon next to your search bar and switch back to whichever search engine you were using before.

The only drawback of the latest versions of Inquisitor, depending on how you look at it, is that they use Yahoo! Search by default. You don't notice this so much when you're going straight to a webpage from the Inquisitor results, but you definitely do when you perform a full search. (You can choose between Yahoo! and Google in the add-on's preferences, however.)

[Via Cybernetnews]

Tags: extension, firefox, Inquisitor, plug-in, search, Yahoo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Aniruddh said 2:52PM on 10-22-2008

Can We use Google search by this add on? can we change the search engine preference?

skrollan said 3:48PM on 10-22-2008

yep, you can change to google search.
and you can also add any other search engine pretty easy.

i have to say that i really like this one!
thumbs up

amselly said 3:00PM on 10-22-2008

finally! I stuck with safari for way too long time because of inquisitor.

soniiic said 11:12AM on 10-23-2008

wait what?

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/cybersearch-addon-puts-results-in-your-awesome-bar/

William Thomas said 6:50PM on 11-06-2008

Thanks-I digg this! I'm choosing the Google search!

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