Selection Search

Search for the selected text in search engines

Selection Search - Quick Text Search Tool

"Selection Search" is an Android app that enables users to easily search for selected text in their browser. By clicking on highlighted text, a customizable popup menu appears, letting users choose their preferred search engine. Users can adjust settings, including the appearance of the menu and the search engines displayed. With features to enhance usability, this app streamlines the search process on any website.

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Extension stats

By: Pitmairen

Users: 30,000+

Rating: 4.67

(540)

Version: 0.9.4 (Last updated: 2024-12-31)

Creation date: 2020-05-01

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

contextMenus
storage
notifications
clipboardWrite
tabs
offscreen

Host permissions:

https://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/favicons*

Size: 174.08K

Email: pr*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 4,423 ▲ 24

Other rankings

#200 in Tools

#10 in selection keyword 23

#19 in search keyword 80

#19 in search box keyword 51

#28 in google search keyword 99 ▲ 1

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Other platforms

Not available on Android

Selection Search (v0.8.64.1)

4.75

(32) 303

Selection Search (v0.8.64)

4.50

(11) 7,114+

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Extension summary

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With this extension you can easily search for text you have selected. When some text is selected you can left click the selected text to get a popup where you can choose a search engine to search with.

In the options page you can customize the look of the menu, which mouse button that should activate the menu, which search engines to show, and a lot of other things.

When you install this extension you will get a warning that this extension can:

"Access your data on all websites."

This is needed because the code for the popup-menu needs to be added to every website for it to work.

User reviews

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Pros

Highly customizable with a variety of options for users
Very productive and saves time for users
Good bug fixes and developer support based on user feedback
Compatible with a wide range of search engines
Long-standing reliability and strong performance over years of use

Cons

Search engine icons frequently do not display properly
Some users experience performance issues, especially after updates
Requires multiple clicks to activate searching in some cases
Issues appear to arise intermittently after updates
Some functionality, such as certain searches, may fail intermittently

Most mentioned

Search engine icons not appearing
Customization options and user friendliness
Bug fixes and updates from the developer
Performance issues after the latest update
Increased loading times when using the extension

User reviews

Thanks for your great work. Can you enlarge the button displayed after selecting text? It's too small on a big screen.

张小贺, 2024-12-05

At first, many thanks for this great working extension. Then, may I have please a request: is there a workaround to make the icons of the search engines to appear?

Miltiades Christodoulou, 2024-12-01

一如既往的好用，谁用谁知道。Selection Search 与油猴 -- 唯二陪伴我十年的浏览器插件，也是目前唯一已知支持 POST 请求自定义搜索的工具。如果没有记错，这个 POST 功能还是十年前我最先请求开发者添加的功能，嘿，人生没有几个十年，对于一个公益项目，开发者始终在坚持更新这真的令人感动和佩服。