# Right-Click Search Wikipedia

> Search Wikipedia by right-clicking selected text. Privacy-focused with minimal permissions.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/quick-search-wikipedia](https://chrome-stats.com/d/quick-search-wikipedia)

## Overview

- **ID:** `quick-search-wikipedia`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Chris Hayes
- **Category:** search-tools
- **Daily users:** 4
- **Version:** 1.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-29
- **First published:** 2025-11-28
- **Size:** 23 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/quick-search-wikipedia/)
- **Website:** [https://codeberg.org/chris-hayes/right-click-search-wikipedia](https://codeberg.org/chris-hayes/right-click-search-wikipedia)

## Description

A lightweight, privacy-respecting Firefox extension for searching Wikipedia.

<strong>Features:</strong>
- Select any text on a webpage
- Right-click and choose "Search Wikipedia"
- Opens results in a new tab

<strong>Privacy &amp; Permissions:</strong>
This extension uses only ONE permission (<code>menus</code>) and:
- Does not access or monitor your browsing activity
- Does not read or modify webpage content
- Only accesses selected text when you explicitly right-click
- No tracking, no analytics, no data collection

<strong>Open Source:</strong>
Fully open-source under GPU 3.0 license. You can check out the code on Codeberg.
Source code: <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/e62f15430f0e5412aea917ac85d3c34da44d6c6feefbf09853bc9a88bcb8a7de/https%3A//codeberg.org/chris-hayes/right-click-search-wikipedia" rel="nofollow">https://codeberg.org/chris-hayes/right-click-search-wikipedia</a>

<strong>Fork Notice:</strong>
This is a personal fork of Quick Search Wikipedia, which uses unnecessary extra permissions that give it access to all browser tabs.

## Rankings

- #49,212 — Overall
- #80 — wikipedia
- #84 — right click
- #230 — permission
- #237 — permissions

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `menus`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/quick-search-wikipedia)