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The menu extra

DEVONagent Express is pretty much self-explanatory and can be in the same way as the Spotlight menu:

  • Click the DEVONagent Express icon in the right area of the menu bar to show the DEVONagent Express menu with the search field.
  • Choose where you want to search from the magnifying glass pop-up menu in the search field. The chosen plugin or search set is shown in front of the search field.
  • Enter your query.
  • Press ↩ or Enter.

DEVONagent Express now sends your query to the selected search engine(s), collects the results, and shows them ranked in the menu.

  • A colored bar in the search field shows how far the search has already progressed.
  • Point with the mouse on any result to show a tooltip with a preview and a text summary.
  • Click the result to open it in your browser.
  • Hold the ⌥ or ⌘ modifier key to open results in your browser in the background.
  • Drag results to e.g. the Desktop or other applications. Dragging to the Desktop creates bookmarks (.webloc), dragging to other applications inserts the web address.
  • Navigate through the list with the Up and Down keys, press ↩ or Enter to open the result in your browser.
  • Recall recent searches from the magnifying glass pop-up menu.
  • Click the to clear your search.

Note: Plugins return up to 20 results, match title, URL, and text, don't filter similar pages, and accept all document types. Simple plugins also don't follow links, search language-independent, and don't use fuzzy search. Umlauts are ignored, archived pages are not filtered (as there is no archive in DEVONagent Express, and scanners are only used by the built-in search sets. If you want to tweak your search consider buying DEVONagent.