Open in new tab not working

hello all,
ever since upgrading to Lion I have been unable to get highlighted text in a text entry box (ex: FB status update) to open in a new tab whenever the contextual menu item "search with Google" is clicked. I have the safari settings checked so that holding command-click will open in a new tab but this only works for links and other text already rendered on the page.
this is annoying my wife greatly, because after the search takes her away from the current page all text entered is then erased. I've tried working with the Glims safari extension settings with no success.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'll gladly take them. otherwise, it seems I'll be switching back to snow leopard ...
thanks in advance,
Joseph Thomasson

wasn't able to find a workaround, so I just reinstalled snow leopard.

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