Context Menu Search

Name: Context Menu Search
Rating: 4.530339805825243 (824 reviews)
Author: https://ashutoshdwivedi.com

Use the right-click menu to search for selected text in different search engines

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Context Menu Search is a powerful Chrome extension that enhances your browsing efficiency by allowing you to search selected text across multiple search engines directly from the right-click context menu. Customize your search options by adding, removing, or rearranging from a list of more than 40 popular search engines or add your own.

Search results open in new tabs configured by you — either as focused or background tabs, and positioned next to the current tab or at the end of the tab bar. The extension also offers premium features such as AI prompts for summarizing, rephrasing, translating, and more, customizable prompts, sub-menu organization for better management, and multi-launch capability to handle multiple searches or AI prompts simultaneously. Compatible with Chrome 88 and newer, this extension is ideal for users who value quick, versatile search and AI integration in their workflow.

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By:

https://ashutoshdwivedi.com

Users:

100,000+

Rating:

4.53

(824) 1 new ratings

Version:

3.0.1 Last updated: 2025-04-24

Creation date:

2014-10-18

Risk:

Permissions:

contextMenus
storage
offscreen
sidePanel

Size:

1.47M

Email:

co*****@ashu.co.in

URLs:

Website

Full description:

See detailed description ⏷

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 1,533 ▼ 10

Other rankings

#105 in Tools ▼ 1

#1 in context menu keyword 23

#3 in menu keyword 34 ▼ 1

#22 in search box keyword 16 ▼ 1

#28 in search keyword 61 ▼ 11

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User reviews

Users praise Context Menu Search as a highly useful and time-saving tool with excellent customization options, essential for daily browsing tasks. However, a recent major update (version 3.0) caused significant issues, including loss of functionality, broken imports, and disappearance from the context menu. Many users dislike the forced AI integration and introduction of premium paid features, which spoil their experience and trust. Despite these problems, users remain hopeful for a fix or updates to restore usability.

Pros

Great tool for quick context menu searches, saving time by directly searching highlighted text.
Highly customizable with pre-built context menu searches and the ability to add custom searches.
Useful and essential extension that many users rely on daily for work and personal use.
Good integration with various websites and platforms, improving browsing experience.
User-friendly with options to import and manage multiple search engines.

Cons

Recent update (version 3.0) caused the extension to stop working or disappear from the context menu for many users.
Importing previous settings is not backward compatible, causing frustration among long-time users.
Unwanted AI integration introduced in the update, which users find unnecessary and disruptive.
Features like missing context menu icons and options menu issues after update.
Paid premium features introduced, making the free version less useful or restricted.

Recent reviews

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alex, 2025-05-08

Great tool. l Love the new look, icon, and the AI integration... Thanks 4 the update .. only thing missing is a PayPal donation icon on the Settings Page ;)

Tanks in Space, 2025-04-25

TOTALLY RUINED! This extension was one of my favourites, I have a backup of my search tools I would import for each new install on a web browser. Now my import is not working, and my custom searches refuse to work. This is a select and search tool. Why on earth do I need AI involvement? Y'all would put AI in a toaster just to say it has AI. There is no reason for me to prompt for anything with this tool! This is such an absurd use for AI. Not to mention you did not make the import backwards compatible! I am so furious that a clean install pushed this update!

Kiel, 2025-04-24

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Context Menu Search does not require any sensitive permissions.

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