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Context menus

1 July, 2025

I got an email that had an unfamiliar time zone in it. My intuition said that if I selected the text and right-clicked then I’d be closer to knowing what the corresponding local time was. When I did, the best option I found was to search the web.

The Kagi search was helpful, but I shouldn’t need internet access to compute an answer.

Wouldn’t it be cool if I could install a program that added this feature to relevant context menus? And not only in Thunderbird, but in every program that has text and context menus?

The text "12pp PST" selected. A context menu lists some possible actions, including searching the web for it.
Thunderbird’s context menu for a text selection