Highlight some text, right click over text and select "Search Google for...".
 
Pops the search in a new tab. At least in Firefox anyway but I'm guessing the same thing would happen in Chrome.
 
That's a time saver since many searches I do are about people, events, concepts or words I've never heard of before. Now I don't have to open a tab and copy/pasta or type the thingie I'm lookin' for.
 
Shirley this isn't some mystic secret to many of you but damn... I like that, and after over a decade of surfin' the webz I just found out about it today. Kewl.
 
I'm assuming if I changed my default search engine it would search that instead of teh googley moogleys. Haven't tried that yet.
 
Now back to your usual CH silliness.

 
It works in Chrome too Beeps.
 
Incidentally, in IE10, selecting/highlighting text actually copies it directly into the search window if you use Google Toolbar:
 

 
 
 

SteveStrummerUK
 
It works in Chrome too Beeps.
 
Incidentally, in IE10, selecting/highlighting text actually copies it directly into the search window if you use Google Toolbar:

Good to know. Thing is I got booted out of school when I was... well too young for it to be legal for them to boot me out of school but the truancy officer basically said "We want you gone so if you and yer mum don't say anything we won't". Loved learning but cripes those buggers weren't teaching me much of anything (except how to despise the system).
 
So these days whut with the intertubeys and all I try to fill in the gaps as much as possible on my own and do so with great gusto. Anything that makes that easier for me is, as Billy 'O' the Bayou would say... Brylliant!
 
However I am disappointed, Steve. I was hoping you would have a visible tab open in your screencap of a sheep shagging fetish site.
 
Please try to do better next time.
 
It is imperative for the furtherance of lulzology.
 
FOR SCIENCE!!!
 
;-)

Beepster

SteveStrummerUK
 
It works in Chrome too Beeps.
 
Incidentally, in IE10, selecting/highlighting text actually copies it directly into the search window if you use Google Toolbar:

Good to know. Thing is I got booted out of school when I was... well too young for it to be legal for them to boot me out of school but the truancy officer basically said "We want you gone so if you and yer mum don't say anything we won't". Loved learning but cripes those buggers weren't teaching me much of anything (except how to despise the system).
 
So these days whut with the intertubeys and all I try to fill in the gaps as much as possible on my own and do so with great gusto. Anything that makes that easier for me is, as Billy 'O' the Bayou would say... Brylliant!
 
However I am disappointed, Steve. I was hoping you would have a visible tab open in your screencap of a sheep shagging fetish site.
 
Please try to do better next time.
 
It is imperative for the furtherance of lulzology.
 
FOR SCIENCE!!!
 
;-)

Beebz,
 
Stop highlighting Bapu's Moobs 

I'll send a pic anytime you want.
 
As if the hundreds I already sent weren't enough.

Bapeen?
 
Weenu?

Here's a completely pointless tip that you'll never use. When typing a URL in the URL bar, you can hit CTRL + enter instead of typing .com. 

I just tried the highlighting tip and a pop-up box appeared that said "Why bother?" 

One of my favorite Windows tips is pressing Windows key + X to bring up a very handy menu that has a lot of very handy Windows features (like Device Manager, Network Connections, Programs & Features, System etc). It used to include the Control Panel as well, but I guess MS have removed it for some typically bizarro reason.