Highlight any text and perform a search in any search engine with a couple of clicks, hotkey or gesture.
Selected Text Searcher is available to install from Chrome Web Store and for download from this page. It has 1,000+ active users The latest version is 1.48, and it was published 2 years ago.
Total download count: 16
All available versions
You can find the current and older versions of Selected Text Searcher here. You can download the archived versions or inspect their source codes.
As a free user, you can only download the latest version.
Upgrade to download older versions
5 versions available for download. Install CRX file
Option 1: The easy way (for Windows users only)
- Download and run chrome-stats.exe file on your PC. This method will allow you to install Chrome extensions directly from chrome-stats.com in one click. You only need to do this once!
- Type in
chrome://restart
in the URL bar to restart the browser for the changes to take effect. - Download and install the Selected Text Searcher CRX file
Option 2: Advanced method
- Download Selected Text Searcher CRX file
- NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to use option 1, or download the ZIP file instead.
- In the URL bar, go to
chrome://extensions
- Enable Developer mode
- Drag and drop the downloaded Selected Text Searcher CRX file into the Extensions page
- When prompted, click Add extension to install Selected Text Searcher.
Install ZIP file
- Download and unpack the Selected Text Searcher ZIP file to a directory of your choice.
- In Chrome browser, go to
chrome://extensions
- Enable Developer mode.
- Click on the Load Unpacked button.
- Select the directory of with the unpacked Selected Text Searcher ZIP file from step 1. Selected Text Searcher is now installed on your browser.
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