Do you want to search maps, find a picture, translate a word, search Wikipedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus, all from the browser itself? Then the answer is HyperWords in Firefox. HyperWords is a free tool that does all this with just a click of the mouse.

Here the video demonstrates how HyperWords works and you will see how easy it is and makes us more productive when browsing.

When we browse the web pages for blogs, news sites, we usually want to know more to find the meaning of certain words, or to understand more about the topic keyword from Wikipedia, Google etc. In some cases we would like to translate the words in our languages. Doing all these functions, we usually open a new browser window and search for the additional information. To avoid this extra step you can use HyperWords.

HyperWords is a simple Firefox utility that does all the above with ease from within the browser window itself. It is a free Firefox extension tool you can download from here.

With HyperWords, you just select any plain text in the web page as shown below and then you can have a variety of options. In this example suppose you want to see the picture, you will have options to see from either Google or Flickr. Once you choose the option, it will show pictures of that particular word.

I used to do the above with Google Toolbar, I just used to select the word and click the appropriate button to see more information about it. HyperWords is a new one and they are slowly adding more services to it, so it will be a good one to use along with Google Toolbar.

Try the translate feature after you download it will change the words into the translated language in the browser itself.

HyperWords is available only for Firefox, not for IE, Opera and other browser types.

To make this work: Just install this HyperWords Firefox extension and restart your Firefox browser.

For more tutorials, you can click here.