Selected Text Searcher

Name: Selected Text Searcher
Rating: 4.2381 (21 reviews)
Author: loftyshaky

By: loftyshaky

Highlight any text and perform search on any search engine with a couple of clicks, hotkey or gesture.

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Features & Capabilities

Selected Text Searcher is a powerful Chrome extension that lets you highlight any text and search across multiple search engines with just a couple of clicks, hotkeys, or gestures. It offers seamless integration that allows easy addition and rearrangement of search engines without navigating deep into settings. Users can import custom search engines and search selected text on one or multiple websites simultaneously.

Features include autocomplete for faster searches, drag & drop zones mode to quickly initiate searches, and gesture support for an intuitive user experience. A handy user guide is available to help users get the most out of the extension. If users encounter issues, a simple fix involves adjusting browser config settings. Overall, Selected Text Searcher enhances browsing productivity by making text-based web searches faster and more customizable.

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Version:

1.45resigned1 Last updated: 2024-04-25

Version code:

5728847

Creation date:

2017-10-05

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Permissions:

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

217.85KB

Email:

lo*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-23

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 12,792 ▼ 106

Other rankings

#88 in selection keyword 17

#143 in performance keyword 17 ▼ 1

#183 in guide keyword 24 ▲ 2

#187 in sell keyword 23 ▼ 1

#194 in speech to text keyword 25 ▼ 2

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Selected Text Searcher (v1.48)

1,000 4.71

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Developed by:

loftyshaky

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/selected-text-searcher/

Email:

lo*****@gmail.com

User Reviews

It used to be a ★5 add-on, but it seems to have stopped working since Firefox 148.0. If you can fix it, I'd appreciate it.

by id*****, 2026-03-13

by 退出*****, 2025-03-31

by 敬念*****, 2025-02-26

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Is Selected Text Searcher Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Selected Text Searcher requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

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Selected Text Searcher has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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