Select text and search from the context menu or a tiled popup using any of your installed search engines. Add new search engines with a right-click, edit favicons and query strings. POST compatible, simple UI, highly configurable. For FF 57+
- By:
- Mike B
- Daily users:
- 1,599+ 28
- Rating:
- 4.73 (197)
2 new ratings
- Version:
- 1.47.12 Last updated: 2025-03-19
- Version code:
- 5913151
- Creation date:
- 2017-12-01
- Risk:
- High risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
- Permissions:
- <all_urls>
- activeTab
- contextMenus
- storage
- tabs
- search
- unlimitedStorage
- webNavigation
- <all_urls>
- Size:
- 687.23K
- Email:
- ss*****@gmail.com
- URLs:
- Website ,Privacy policy
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Firefox Browser Add-ons
- Updated:
- a day ago
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Pros
- Highly customizable and flexible for personal preferences
- Considered the best or top search add-on by many users
- Frequently updated and feature-rich
- Replaces other popular but now defunct extensions effectively
- Useful across multiple browsers including Firefox and Chrome
Cons
- Newer versions have issues such as not working or broken features (e.g., sidebar)
- Preferences interface is complicated, buggy, and difficult to customize
- Problems saving or importing/exporting custom search engines
- Encoding issues with Japanese character sets in versions after v1.46.26
- Occasional UI glitches with preferences pane elements appearing as gray blocks
Recent reviews
Absolutley excelent add on can customise it as much as needed and works perfect
by Paulthefox, 2025-05-14
by Steven_Aston, 2025-05-14
A great replacement for the defunct Swift Selection Search
by Den, 2025-04-08
Extension safety
Risk impact
ContextSearch web-ext requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood
ContextSearch web-ext is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
Risk likelihood analysis details
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