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When I select a part of a text and click in "Search Google", a new tab is opened. I don't like the switch. I want the search result in a background page.

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When I select a part of a text in a page, use the right button of mouse and click in "Search Google for "the text"", I want a new tab open in a NEW TAB BACKGROUND. How do I set that? Thanks.

When I select a part of a text in a page, use the right button of mouse and click in "Search Google for "the text"", I want a new tab open in a NEW TAB BACKGROUND. How do I set that? Thanks.

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Ok, I found a reply about it in

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/952403

"hello, its possible to achieve this through the settings in firefox - just enter about:config into the firefox location bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named browser.search.context.loadInBackground. double-click it and change its value to true. "

Thanks!

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Ok, I found a reply about it in

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/952403

"hello, its possible to achieve this through the settings in firefox - just enter about:config into the firefox location bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named browser.search.context.loadInBackground. double-click it and change its value to true. "

Thanks!