Firefox has this and its super useful. Say I go to a website, see a string that Id like to google, I could select it and drag and drop it between two tabs, and it should open up a new tab in that location, googling the string I dropped. Or even just drag and drop directly in the urlbar, where it should just replace the URL with that string, again to be searched.
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Drag and drop selected text to URL and Tab bars
Vlad added the Clarification tag .
because i use drag and drop more than right click.. what kind of question is that?
not trying to be rude here, but its the way I use my other browser, firefox. i know its not how everyone does, and I guess its not how you do, but doing the right click thing is slower and less intuitive for me, so I made the feature request, to request for that.
that's all 
a month later
Upvoted! Two reasons why I’m upvoting this besides also preferring drag and dropping over right clicking:
When you right click and search, it immediately switches you out to the new tab with the search results. When I drag and drop, it creates a tab with that search in the spot where I dropped it, but doesn’t switch me out from my current tab. (I often do this when I’m reading an article or blog post and they mention something I would like to know more about. I prefer to finish reading the current article/blog post first, before checking those search results to look for further reading. It’s like reading Wikipedia and opening links to related articles in new tabs. Being switched out of my current tab and having to click back to it gets annoying)
The drag and drop action doesn’t just search. It works as if the selected string had been typed into the address bar. This means that, if the string is formatted like a URL, the new tab created by the drag and drop will simply load that URL rather than search for it in a search engine. I find very often places that will have written out URLs that aren’t hyperlinked; when that happens, I just select the URL and drag and drop it onto my tab bar to open it as if it were a link, no need to copy and paste into address bar.
If the drag-and-drop action is too much, I would settle for a keyboard shortcut that has this behavior (creating a new tab but not switching to it, and using the selected string on that tab as if it had been typed into the address bar, opening it if it’s a URL or searching for it in the default search engine if not).
Unrelated: I had to type this message 4 times because every time I tried, when I was almost done with it the Orion Feedback website would “reset”/“refresh” (?) and I would lose everything I’ve written. Not sure what’s going on. The refreshing might’ve been my fault, maybe I was accidentally pressing some combination of keys that was refreshing the page, but I would hope for the message I’d been typing to not disappear if that happened… in the end I went to type it out on a Notes app to paste here so I could be sure I wouldn’t lose everything again.
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ForumNinja404 changed the title to Drag and drop selected text to URL and Tab bars .
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