Keyboard shortcut to select any word and search the default search engine using the selected word(s) as the keyword

Nobody's addressed the issue of how to select some text using the keyboard.

Firefox and IE have Caret Browsing, activated by F7. It lets you move a text cursor (caret) around to both navigate the document and select text, much like a word processor (except you can't edit). Select text in the usual way, by holding Shift and navigating.

Chrome has partial support for keyboard text selection using Shift + cursor keys, but it only works to expand or reduce an existing selection that's been made with the mouse :(

Both browsers can open the context menu with Shift+F10 or the context menu key - there's a search item on the menu.

Firefox

There is addon for that.

Search it up! - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13174

Chrome

• chrome addons cannot do something like that