Keywords Search Tool Phroni Launches As an Add-On For 2 More Mobile Browsers

Remember the useful tool from our Startup Arena contest last year that creates links out of certain text in a browser? It’s called Phroni. Having been available for a while only as an add-on for Firefox for Android, the tool is now also ready in the form of an extension for folks who prefer using Dolphin Browser or Sleipnir on their Android phones.

This will make Phroni accessible to a lot more people. The add-on looks a bit like the copy-paste pop-up on iOS (pictured above) and gives you two-tap access to finding out more information about that keyword on sites like Google, Flickr, Wikipedia, and YouTube. So if I’m reading about the qualifying results for the latest F1 race in my browser, Phroni would let me, with just two clicks, do a search for video of the qualifying session on YouTube. That saves me a lot of mobile fiddling.

While Japan-made Sleipnir browser is relatively obscure – though we’re big fans of it, and we especially like its gesture triggers – Sino-US startup Dolphin Browser has tens of millions of users from the 80 million installs that it recently talked about.

Shortly after competing in our Startup Arena battle, Japan-based Phroni secured $864,000 in funding to grow the business. The young company is now working on an API for developers.

The Phroni for Dolphin Browser add-on is here, while the Sleipnir extension is here.

(Editing by Anh-Minh Tran Do)