Highlighted text search

Adds keyboard hotkeys for opening a search of highlighted text in your favourite search engine in a new tab. This is a more…
What is Highlighted text search?
Highlighted Text Search is a Chrome extension that adds keyboard hotkeys for opening a search of highlighted text in your favorite search engine in a new tab. It provides a more efficient way of searching compared to the traditional right-click method. Customize hotkeys, search engine, and choose to open tabs in the foreground or background.

Extension stats

Users: 21 ▲ 2
Version: 0.7 (Last updated: 2023-07-14)
Creation date: 2023-06-21
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • contextMenus
Size: 319.49K

Ranking

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#2490 in Tools ▲ 12

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Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

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Adds keyboard hotkeys for opening a search of highlighted text in your favourite search engine in a new tab. This is a more efficient way than the usual highlight text> right click> find the Search for____ option in the context menu. Option to open the tab in the background or the foreground. The search engine and the hotkeys are both customizable. There's also a context menu item for background searching.

Extension safety

Risk impact

Highlighted text search requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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