Context Search

Name: Context Search
Rating: 3.875 (24 reviews)
Author: Olivier de Broqueville

By: Olivier de Broqueville

Searches the selected text using a search engine from your custom list.

This add-on was removed from Firefox Add-ons Store on 2025-10-26

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Features & Capabilities

Context Search is a powerful Firefox add-on designed to enhance your browsing experience by enabling quick searches of selected text using your favorite search engines or AI chat platforms. It integrates seamlessly with the browser, offering options to search directly from the context menu, an icons grid, or even the omnibox (URL address bar).

This extension supports multiple features including dark mode for the options page, multisearch capabilities to search selected text across several engines simultaneously, and reverse-image search using tools like Google Images or TinEye. Users can manage and customize their search engines easily, add new engines including those using OpenSearch format, assign keyboard shortcuts, and import/export their engine lists for backup. Optional permissions allow notifications, history, bookmarks, and more, all configurable to suit privacy preferences. For users seeking enhanced flexibility and productivity in web searches, Context Search is an essential tool.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on Privacy & Security

By:

Olivier de Broqueville

Daily users:

491

Rating:

3.88

(24)

Version:

6.3.1 Last updated: 2025-10-23

Version code:

6060190

Creation date:

2024-10-27

Risk:

Permissions:

alarms
contextMenus
declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
menus
scripting
storage
search
tabs
tabGroups

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Content scripts matches:

Size:

3.26MB

Email:

co*****@gmail.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2025-10-26

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Context Search (v6.3.2)

79 5.00

(2)

Contact the developer

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Developed by:

Olivier de Broqueville

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/contextsearch/

Email:

co*****@gmail.com

Website:

https://github.com/odebroqueville/contextSearch/issues

Permission Change History

2025-09-30: Version 6.2.2 → 6.2.4

Add Permissions: tabGroups

2025-07-07: Version 6.0.7 → 6.1.1

Remove Optional permissions: nativeMessaging

2025-04-13: Version 6.0.5 → 6.0.6

Remove Permissions: activeTab

2025-03-19: Version 6.0.2 → 6.0.3

Add Host permissions: <all_urls>

Remove Optional host permissions: <all_urls>

2025-03-15: Version 6.0.1 → 6.0.2

Remove Host permissions: <all_urls>

Add Optional host permissions: <all_urls>

Add Permissions: declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

Remove Permissions: declarativeNetRequest

2025-03-12: Version 5.3.5 → 6.0.0

Add Host permissions: <all_urls>

Add Permissions: alarms contextMenus declarativeNetRequest scripting

Remove Permissions: <all_urls> webRequest webRequestBlocking

2024-11-05: Version 5.3.3 → 5.3.4

Add Optional permissions: clipboardWrite

User Reviews

Users overwhelmingly find Context Search very useful for quick, customizable searches and praise its engine support and shortcuts. Top complaints are a new privacy/data-collection warning, updates that break or reset settings (ESR problems), and persistent, unremovable UI elements (AI/search-bar items); some also cite unwanted extra search engines and feature bloat.

Pros

Highly useful and time-saving for quick context searches—many users call it indispensable.
Supports many search engines and makes adding/backing up engines easy, enabling flexible, site-specific searches.
Provides convenient shortcuts/options (including a keybind) that speed up searching without opening new tabs.
Restores or preserves familiar workflow for longtime users; many say it’s the same reliable add-on they used before.

Cons

Privacy warning flagged in recent versions: "Required data collection: search terms" (users worry search terms may be sent).
Recent updates often break functionality, reset or fail to save settings, and have compatibility issues (noted with Firefox ESR).
Persistent UI elements that users can’t remove (e.g., an "AI Search" context menu item or search-bar suggestion/icon).
Perceived bloat: additional/default-enabled search engines and extra features some users don’t want.

Recent reviews

New review October 10, 2025: Suddenly it needs to collect "search terms" AHAHA no bro. no. that's completely unnecessary. Original review: i mean it works...but why can't I remove the "AI search" button at all??? Why do devs have to force AI into everything Edit: still no way to reply on dev response here? When I right click on any page, There's an "AI Search" on the bottom of my main context menu. I cannot remove this via any option for the extension. This is even when I right-click on images. It has this extension's icon next to it and disabling the extension removes it so I know it's from this icon. I can only assume it was an oversight to force it enabled when most other things can be disabled in the options. I've been using the old version for as long as I can remember so I really like the extension but I don't want to even see any AI stuff so I hope I can remove this somehow.

by Ko*****, 2025-10-11

Required data collection: search terms. sounds very fishy. i would not update!

by Fi*****, 2025-10-11

A very useful and convenient add-on (although some things broke with version 6). But since version 6.2.5: "Required data collection: search terms". So this could send your search history to the developer. An absolute no-go. Goodbye.

by Ha*****, 2025-10-09

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Is Context Search Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Context Search requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

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Context Search may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.