# Context Search

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

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/contextsearch](https://chrome-stats.com/d/contextsearch)

## Overview

- **ID:** `contextsearch`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Olivier de Broqueville
- **Daily users:** 491
- **Weekly downloads:** 23
- **Rating:** 3.88 / 5 (24 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.3.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-10-23
- **First published:** 2024-10-27
- **Size:** 3.26 MB
- **Data as of:** 2025-10-26
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/contextsearch/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/odebroqueville/contextSearch/issues](https://github.com/odebroqueville/contextSearch/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/contextsearch/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/contextsearch/privacy/)

## Description

**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.

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `alarms`
- `contextMenus`
- `declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess`
- `menus`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `search`
- `tabs`
- `tabGroups`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High 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 is not longer available in the store

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## Review summary

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.

## Similar extensions and apps

- [Context Search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/contextual-search) — 3,606 users, 4.39 / 5
- [ContextSearch web-ext](https://chrome-stats.com/d/contextsearch-web-ext) — 3,186 users, 4.68 / 5
- [Context Web Search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/context-web-search) — 62 users, 4.40 / 5
- [Custom Context Search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/custom-context-search) — 27 users
- [Simple Context Search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/simple-context-search) — 475 users, 4.79 / 5
- [Context Search Origin](https://chrome-stats.com/d/context-search-we) — 664 users, 4.31 / 5
- [Contextual](https://chrome-stats.com/d/contextual) — 6 users, 5.00 / 5
- [Custom Search Menu](https://chrome-stats.com/d/custom-search-menu) — 3 users, 5.00 / 5
- [Selection Search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/selection-search-ff) — 381 users, 4.78 / 5
- [srch](https://chrome-stats.com/d/simple-search-selected-text) — 3 users
- [Custom context menu searches](https://chrome-stats.com/d/custom-context-menu-searches) — 98 users, 4.50 / 5
- [Context Searcher](https://chrome-stats.com/d/context-searcher) — 4 users

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