Chrome multi search

pickarooney

I'm trying to convert from Firefox (which eats a gig of RAM on a permanent basis) to Chrome but there's one feature I'm missing - the ability to reuse a search term in another engine. For example, in firefox I have the little search bar on the right of the address bar with a dropdown list of 7 or 8 search engines.

Say I wanted to get information about "William Shatner" - I type in the search term and hit go to bring up a google search. Now I want to see some images so I switch the dropdown to Google images and hit go, then repeat for Wikipedia, IMDB and so on. In Chrome's omnibar I have to type in the search term each time, prefaced by a search engine keyword. I've tried extensions like Multi-search, Quick search and one other whose name escapes me but they all require too much effort to use.

chin_grin

This what you're looking for?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/afmdpmddiokpdknaeofdnlclbpgehhce

Multi Search allows a choice of search options from both the context menu and the Omnibox and can even search multiple web sites at once.

pickarooney

I tried that but it does the complete opposite of what I'm looking for. It requires you to type in the search engine keyword and 'multi' and doesn't hold onto the search string.