# Context Search Origin

> Search from the context menu! Right click on some selected text, a link text, or an image – search for it on the engines of your choice. Manage your search engines easily with the native Firefox bookmarks manager.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/context-search-we](https://chrome-stats.com/d/context-search-we)

## Overview

- **ID:** `context-search-we`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** NNKOD
- **Category:** search-tools,bookmarks
- **Daily users:** 659
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Rating:** 4.31 / 5 (113 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.8.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-03
- **First published:** 2017-08-11
- **Size:** 41 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/context-search-we/)
- **Website:** [https://codeberg.org/NNKOD/Context-Search/issues](https://codeberg.org/NNKOD/Context-Search/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/context-search-we/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/context-search-we/privacy/)

## Description

Context Search Origin lets you search from the context menu by right-clicking selected text, a link, or an image. Choose your preferred search engines and run searches directly from any page (link and image searches require Firefox 60+).

Manage your engines with the native Firefox bookmarks manager. Create a folder named “Searches” and, depending on Firefox version, edit bookmarks to use %s for query substitution and assign keywords, or add engines by right‑clicking a search field and saving them in the folder.

## Rankings

- #4,215 — Overall
- #135 — Bookmarks
- #20 — context menu
- #69 — choice
- #71 — concert
- #105 — speech to text

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `menus`
- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `bookmarks`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise the add-on's simplicity, reliable right-click search integration, and easy management of search engines (widely used and recommended). The dominant complaint is about icon handling — favicons often disappear or show a generic icon, some engine icons appear intermittently, and the context-menu icon is hard to customize or spot.

### Pros

- Simple and lightweight — many users call it the best/simple solution for context searching
- Integrates into the right-click/context menu for quick searches
- Easy to add and manage custom search engines
- Reliable and used daily by many; preferred over other context-search add-ons

### Cons

- Favicons/icons frequently disappear or get replaced with a generic/black addon icon
- Icons can be intermittently missing for specific engines (e.g., YouTube, Google Translate)
- Context-menu icon is bland or hard to distinguish and lacks easy customization

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/context-search-we)