# Recon

> This web extension is designed to help you search throughout the web in an extremely versatile manner where all you need to do is select a word and then right click to unveil all the searching options that has been provided by this web extension.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/recon](https://chrome-stats.com/d/recon)

## Overview

- **ID:** `recon`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Aditya Anand
- **Category:** privacy-security,search-tools,other
- **Daily users:** 33
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-10-08
- **Size:** 243 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/recon/)

## Description

Recon is a powerful Firefox add-on that allows you to search the web effortlessly. With just a right click, you can access a wide range of search options, making your web searching experience more versatile and convenient.

## Rankings

- #19,488 — Overall
- #69 — reason

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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/recon)