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Selection Search

by Pitmairen

v0.9.8 Updated Jun 10, 2025 168KiB
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Description

With this extension you can easily search for text you have selected. When some text is selected you can left click the selected text to get a popup where you can choose a search engine to search with. In the options page you can customize the look of the menu, which mouse button that should activate the menu, which search engines to show, and a lot of other things. ************************************** When you install this extension you will get a warning that this extension can: "Access your data on all websites." This is needed because the code for the popup-menu needs to be added to every website for it to work. ************************************** If you want to report a bug/issue, please use the following site: https://github.com/Pitmairen/selection-search/issues Alternatively you can use the support section on this site (chrome web store), but I get no notifications about new posts, so I may not notice the message. ************************************** Source code: https://github.com/Pitmairen/selection-search ************************************** Donations: Some people have asked for ways to make donations to the project. If you want to make a donation you can do so by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pitmairen ************************************** Changelog: 0.9.8 - Remove search engine icon source that no longer works (faviconkit). This could in some cases cause a blank icon to get loaded. 0.9.7 - Improve support for IME input in toolbar popup (See issue #173) - Change to use a html class to shown/hidden the popup menu to make it easier to override the display property of the popup with custom CSS. 0.9.6 - Fix issue where icons in some cases could fail to load because the fallback icon loading did not work. This may improve the icon loading for some users. 0.9.5 - Add option to trigger "open all" feature on submenus with middle click only. - Make back button in toolbar button go back only one level at the time - Fix issue where "open all" on sub menus could crash if the submenu contained separators - Change default search engines on new installs to use https 0.9.4 - Add ability to customize the toolbar popup with css - Include separators in the toolbar popup. Hidden by default, but can be made visible with custom css. 0.9.3 - Fix issue where some icons failing to load could trigger a loop in the image loading, which could cause high CPU usage and pages failing to load. 0.9.2 - Improvements to icon loading. The icons are now loaded in the background worker, similar to how it was done in the 0.8.* versions of the extensions. This should make the icons load faster and with less chance of icons failing to load. Note: The icons are cached in the sessions store provided by the browser. This storage has limited capacity. If you have a lot of search engines or have many large custom icons, you can hit the limit. This will cause some icons to fail to load. If this happens try to use smaller icons if you have custom icons. If that does not help report the issue as it may be possible to make the usage of the storage more efficient if necessary. You can also hit the limit if you make a lot of changes to your search engines in one go, but this should be fixable by just restarting the browser as this will cleanup old entries in the storage. 0.9.1 - Fix issue with context menu items requiring two clicks to work - Fix issue where the context menu items was not added properly - Fix issue where hitting enter in the toolbar search box would not open the first search engine - Changed icon loading to use the icon urls directly, instead of loading the icons in the background, as the background loading does not work properly with manifest v3. This will probably also fix some issues where custom svg images would not load. 0.9.0 - Major rewrite of internals to migrate the extension to manifest V3, as required by Chrome for the extension to continue to work. - No new features or bug fixes in this release. 0.8.64 - Added search-url variable PAGE_QS_VAR_NO_ENCODING to allow query string variables without encoding 0.8.63 - Added new buttons to allow adding new search engines/separators/submenus at specific positions in the search engine list 0.8.62 - Added search-url variable %PAGE_ORIGIN_NO_ENCODING, same as %PAGE_ORIGIN, but without URL encoding 0.8.61 - Added option to enable the search engine popup blacklist/whitelist to also affect the search engine hotkeys. The options is located under Popup menu -> Advanced -> Blacklist/whitelist. 0.8.60 - Don't try to load settings from sync storage if sync is disabled in settings, this could fail in some special cases. 0.8.59 - Add option to open seaches in a small popup window 0.5.58 - Fix issue where the popup could be partially positioned outside the top of the browser window and become unreachable. Mostly an issue for very large popup menus with many search engines. 0.8.57 - Fix mycroft integration. - Add an additional source for search engine icons that is used if the default source does not have an icon. 0.8.56 - Added special search engine marker for sites requiring encodings other than UTF-8. Simply append {SPECIALENCODING} to the end of the search engine url. This enables the feature and the browser should be able to auto detect the correct encoding. 0.8.55: - Possible fix for freezing tabs for searches opened in new foreground tab 0.8.54: - Revert escape feature (}) added in previous release. This broke some search placeholders. 0.8.53: - Added option to open search in new window - Make it possible to add search url to the submenu root item. If a search url is added it will open when clicking the submenu root item, unless the openall on click option is checked. - Improved replacement of bracket placeholders ({%s}). If "}" must be used inside the placeholder it can now be escaped using "}". - Improved regexp placeholder replace converter. The old "re:" converter still works for backwards compatibility. The new improved converter is called "replace:", and is documented under "More Variables" at the top of the options page. 0.8.52: - Upgraded to latest jquery version to get latest security fixes 0.8.51: - Fix issue with saving changed settings on options page For full changelog see: https://github.com/Pitmairen/selection-search#changelog
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Reviews (32 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-19
Milez Awxy

doesn't work, no pop up.

★☆☆☆☆2023-12-20
Ellis Garvin

No instructions for adding search engines other than pressing ctrl and alt, which doesn't work for important sites like google. Mycroft project no longer works either. It's my favorite extension aside from this new and rather massive hole in functionality.

★☆☆☆☆2023-05-06
Grün Blau Gelb

Spy app? It often opens a pop-up, but only when entering a password. This seems like a security risk to me!

★☆☆☆☆2022-01-21
William F

This doesn't work but if it did I would want it to bring up in the Right click menu since that's where all my other "Right click search" extensions show after highlighting text and right clicking. I only need this for Reddit since I have other extensions for everything else and couldn't find one specifically for Reddit. I would also like to click "Search this term on reddit" directly from the right click menu rather than having to go into an second context popup for Selection Search to find the option to click. Hopefully it's working again soon and please notify me when it is.

★☆☆☆☆2021-12-31
radhekrishan rathod

I have no idea how this will work. Maybe it's not working because of other extensions.

★☆☆☆☆2021-02-14
WP Z

It turns to be a series of numbers in the POST method when you search it in multi-languages.

★☆☆☆☆2021-01-26
Osmar Arteaga

This doesn't work for google chrome isn't it? The is no way I can add any good search engine like amazon, it seems to be built only for Firefox.

★☆☆☆☆2019-01-08
Chris Vydas

Abandonware! Needs to be updated desperately. The mycoft plugin site no longer works in tandem with this once useful search tool. Search plugins break and need updating but can't be. Middle mouse button support has never worked and the context menu won't even come up anymore automatically. Looking for a suitable replacement as this one has clearly been abandoned.

★☆☆☆☆2016-05-14
Vrgh Drhn

Doesn't work on Vivaldi.

★☆☆☆☆2016-03-29
Czar

didn't do anything!

★☆☆☆☆2015-05-15
hien nguyen

Not work on pdf viewer.

★☆☆☆☆2013-12-11
Rick Glos

Does not work for me at all.

★☆☆☆☆2013-09-27
Jesse Francis

Does not work at all out of the box. Must be conflicting with another extension considering the good reviews. I'm disappointed, I need an easy and nice selected text search extension :(

★★☆☆☆2025-12-04
陈冠希

Why can't this plug-in be set on the web page to specify the number of lines in a line and then break the line?

★★☆☆☆2025-03-17
Károly Baksa

Backup import doesn't work in Edge 134.0.3124.72 (Official build) (64-bit). :-(

★★☆☆☆2021-05-27
Jessica Gray

Every time you add a search engine the settings change and i have to rechange them all to the settings i like.

★★☆☆☆2017-05-02
Razvan Florentin Popescu

doesnt have copy to clipboard doesnt automatically pop up on select its an inferior option functionality wise, but design wise its great

★★☆☆☆2016-02-23
Bass Exe

I wanted a search tool that you can use by just pressing shortcut keys. But this is so frustrating to use. Does the keyboard + mouse activation even work? I tried many combinations but none of them worked for me. At least add a setting for touch pad users.

★★☆☆☆2015-03-22
suikoden genso

too bad popup doesn't work on pdf viewer

★★★☆☆2025-08-09
Vice

Nice. It needs two features. A copy icon/button to copy the selected text. An option to make the pop up menu to make it horizontal.

★★★☆☆2024-05-09
Старший Брат

It's not always showing icons of the sites, so if you're using icons only theme then you won't be able to use it half the time. It's like a glitch of some sort.

★★★☆☆2022-11-22
P. P.

copy would be fine

★★★☆☆2022-06-25
Сергей Друзь

It's not perfect. Addon with ugle design 😕

★★★☆☆2022-05-10
Νίκος Νικούλης

not working any more. cant add new search

★★★☆☆2022-03-02
Channel

There is a problem with how Search Engines search. For example, in IMDb and Wikipedia, I copy the url from the previous extension, Search Context Search, such as https://www.imdb.com/find?q=, and when I open imdb from the pop-up options of this extension, it does not search for the word which I have chosen, but the web site open with just the search empty. It's good exten. but this, makes the extension essentially non-functional. Can you fix it? Thanks

★★★☆☆2021-04-06
Android User

DevTools Protocol " chrome " cannot be used. I had to make a system to search history using HTML with this extension.

★★★☆☆2020-07-15
Guy Fox

can't search by image

★★★☆☆2020-02-21
漫游挨踢

This plug-in is great, but it block search bar to predict user input. Of course, sometimes.

★★★☆☆2017-03-31
pioun777

Everythings ok, but it lacks: -dark theme/transparency for icons only -smaller bezzel option -there is 0,5second lag between selecting and popup window apear.

★★★☆☆2015-07-22
Kenneth

It keeps losing my settings!! Really annoying because it takes me +-10min to set it up will all my search links I created!! Please fix this.

★★★☆☆2015-04-23
John Titor

This is a great program once you've figured it out. The problem is the developer didn't add any tutorial or explanation on how to use this. Just spent the last 10 minutes trying to figure out how to add a new search engine. What you need to do is search something with the search engine you want to use, copy the url (excluding the search term), and add %s at the end.

★★★☆☆2014-04-28
Alvaro Couto

Does the job, but I'd like an option to directly search. I was looking for a way to add the feature of "search google" when I middle-clicked selected text, and this almost does it, since it opens the popup to search, but I'd like it to open a new tab and search immediately, without the menu.

Permissions (6)

Permissions

clipboardWrite Can write to your clipboard contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu notifications Can show desktop notifications offscreen storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 0.9.8
Updated Jun 10, 2025
Size 168KiB
First Seen Mar 31, 2026