MultiLine Text Selection

Make, copy, and search multiple concurrent text selections.
What is MultiLine Text Selection?
'MultiLine Text Selection' is a Chrome extension designed to enhance productivity by allowing user to make multiple noncontiguous text selections on webpages. It conveniently lets one copy these selections through common methods like ctrl+c or right-click copy, and also adds the ability to directly search the selected text on platforms like Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia via the right-click selection menu. The extension offers numerous distinctive features such as selection locking, undo options, and customized copying styles. All operations are performed in a user-friendly manner with helpful shortcuts. The selections are always plain text and can even be dragged as per the needs.

Extension stats

By: DNishanth
Users: 9,000+
Rating: 3.62 (66)
Version: 14 (Last updated: 2023-09-05)
Creation date: 2019-10-02
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • activeTab
  • storage
Size: 70.00K

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Extension summary

Make multiple noncontiguous text selections at a time in webpages. Text can be copied to clipboard through ctrl+c or the right-click copy option. You can also search your text on Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia through the right click selection menu.

Usage Make additional text selections while holding down ctrl. Clear all selections by clicking without holding ctrl. Undo the most recent selection with ctrl+z. On Macs, use cmd instead of ctrl.

Lock selections with ctrl+shift+L. When selections are locked, they will not disappear when left-clicking. This prevents accidentally clicking out and clearing your selections. While locked, ctrl/cmd is not needed to make selections. Leave locked mode and clear all highlighted text by pressing ctrl+shift+L again.

Right click any selection for search options. Select MultiSearch to open a search tab for each selection. Select CombinedSearch to open a single search tab for each selection separated by a space. Right click the extension icon in the Chrome toolbar (top-right of the browser) and select options to enable or disable the context menu search options.

Select the extension icon to toggle copy options. If 'Copy With Newline' is selected, each selection will be separated by a newline when copying. If 'Copy With Spaces' is selected, each selection will be separated by spaces when copying. If 'Copy With Bullets' is selected, each selection will be copied as a bullet point.

Notes

  • The extension is automatically disabled by Chrome in the store description. Try it out on other sites.
  • Refresh any current tabs when first installing to activate the extension on those pages. This is not necessary for new tabs.
  • When selecting separate words throughout a web page, you can double-click while holding ctrl instead of dragging to select.
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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Works great on Wikipedia
  • Helps in selecting different parts of text
  • Great utility for specific needs
Cons
  • Does not work on various websites
  • Not functional with PDF files
  • Issues after recent Chrome updates
  • Causes YouTube search bar focus problems
  • Inconsistent functionality on Mac
Most mentioned
  • Not working on many websites
  • Works well on Wikipedia
  • Stopped working after updates
Recent reviews
I love you
by inski, 2024-09-15

Hope they fix it ! it does only work in few sites ....
by FEDE MUNDO, 2024-08-05

As another review recently noted, this only works on selected websites. I was able to get it to work on Wikipedia, but I couldn't get it to work elsewhere, including PDFs opened in Chrome, the Chrome Web Store, or Google search results. On Wikipedia, it worked wonderfully, so if you were able to add that functionality across other sites, too, this would be a great extension. As it stands, it's not very useful.
by Jeff Green, 2024-07-22
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Extension safety

Risk impact

MultiLine Text Selection requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

MultiLine Text Selection has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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