SearchBar

The most efficient way to use your favourite search engines. Search selected text, use customizable hotkeys and much more.

SearchBar: Enhancing Search Experience in Chrome

'SearchBar' is a Chrome extension built to enhance your search experience. It brings the best features of Google Toolbar to Chrome, offering one-click search customization, the ability to search selected text, new tab search, customizable hotkeys, search suggestions, search history, the highlighting of search terms, a feature to find search terms in the page, and the ability to search the current site. This advanced tool makes browsing user-friendly, easy, and efficient.

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Extension stats

By: Jacob H

Users: 60,000+

Rating: 4.52

(459)

Version: 0.12.0 (Last updated: 2024-12-02)

Creation date: 2019-10-26

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

tabs
storage
contextMenus
scripting

Host permissions:

http://*/*
https://*/*

Size: 286.72K

Email: ja*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 3,125 ▲ 33

Other rankings

#136 in Tools ▼ 1

#1 in search bar keyword 61

#2 in search box keyword 51 ▲ 1

#13 in google search keyword 99 ▼ 3

#31 in search keyword 80 ▲ 4

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Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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To get started with SearchBar, wait for it to finish installing, go to a web page such as www.google.com and press F4. If nothing happens, you may need to refresh the page.

SearchBar brings the best features of Google Toolbar to Chrome, and much more besides: ● one-click search customization ● search selected text ● new tab search ● customizable hotkeys ● search suggestions ● search history ● highlight search terms ● find search terms in page ● search current site ● pre-populate with search terms ● resize, reorder and reposition

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Very useful and well-written extension.
Easy to set up and use.
Highly customizable with multiple search engines.
Impressive performance when functioning properly.

Cons

Frequently stops working or requires a page refresh to function.
Buttons can become unresponsive after multiple uses.
Support for the extension may be ending or has already ended.

Most mentioned

Issues with the extension not working after multiple searches.
Need for updates or fixes to improve functionality.
Desire for support on additional browsers like Edge.

User reviews

You can add the feature to open searches tabs right after current tab, It would be extremely helpful. Thank you!

Yassin Elabdellaoui, 2024-12-29

非常好用的扩展, 请问如果有推出edge版的打算,那讲更加完美

soul mate, 2024-12-17

The SearchBar ext is the only reason I use Brave instead of Firefox. In late 2023 SearchBar buttons could become unresponsive requiring a page refresh on all Chrome versions. In Sept 2024 the Brave Browser fixed this problem. If you have this problem try Brave.