Inquisitor Search Tool Now Works With Firefox, IE
When Yahoo acquired the Safari search plug-in Inquisitor — which offers find-as-you-type search results — back in May, many predicted the plug-in would suffer a slow death. Indeed, not much has happened since Yahoo picked up Inquisitor, but there was one update in August, and now the company has released a beta Firefox version and a beta for Internet Explorer 7 and 8.
The Firefox add-on version of Inquisitor can do most of what the original Safari plug-in does. Of course, Inquisitor is probably best known for its very slick interface, and that remains unchanged in the Firefox and IE versions.
We downloaded and tested the Firefox version. Perhaps the best news is that, despite being owned by Yahoo, you can still set Inquisitor to search via Google. And while the Firefox version felt marginally slower than its Safari counterpart, it was plenty speedy (faster in fact that the Firefox Awesomebar). The other nice thing about the Firefox version is that it installs as simply another search engine, so if you have a lot of search engines, you can easily switch back and forth between Inquisitor and others.
Firefox users can grab the new version of Inquisitor from the Mozilla add-ons site. IE fans can grab the plug-in for IE 7 and 8 at Inquisitor’s website. Be aware that the latest versions of Inquisitor are governed by the Yahoo privacy policy.
Note: This post was updated at 10:30am Thursday to add links to the Internet Explorer version.
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