# Selection URL Templates

> Open templated URLs from selection, replacing {selection} with the selected/copied text. Multiple and customizable URLs. E.g.: ".../search?q={selection}"

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/selection-url-templates](https://chrome-stats.com/d/selection-url-templates)

## Overview

- **ID:** `selection-url-templates`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** cfifopi
- **Category:** search-tools,tabs
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-07
- **First published:** 2026-06-04
- **Size:** 11 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/selection-url-templates/)

## Description

Selection Context Placeholder lets you right-click selected (or copied) text and open it in a saved URL template, replacing a {selection} placeholder with the text and opening the result in a new tab.

You can save and reuse multiple templates — each shows up as its own context-menu item (e.g. a search engine, dictionary, or translator). 

Add new URLs on the fly, fall back to clipboard text when nothing is selected, and remove or clear saved templates from a sub-menu. 
Templates persist in local storage.

## Rankings

- #101,245 — Overall
- #22 — templates
- #37 — template
- #134 — selection

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `scripting`
- `activeTab`
- `clipboardRead`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- 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/selection-url-templates)