# Swift Selection Search

> Swiftly access your search engines in a popup panel when you select text in a webpage. Context menu also included!

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `swift-selection-search`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Daniel Lobo
- **Category:** search-tools,other
- **Daily users:** 9,720
- **Weekly downloads:** 93
- **Rating:** 4.74 / 5 (702 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.49.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-04-25
- **First published:** 2015-02-20
- **Size:** 305 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/swift-selection-search/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/CanisLupus/swift-selection-search](https://github.com/CanisLupus/swift-selection-search)

## Description

**Swift Selection Search (SSS)** is a powerful Chrome extension designed to streamline how you search selected text across any webpage. When you highlight text, a convenient popup panel appears offering multiple search engines like Google, YouTube, Maps, and Amazon at your fingertips. Alternatively, you can use the context menu option for searches if you prefer.

Highly customizable, SSS allows you to add new search engines, modify icon appearances, control popup behavior, and even enable auto-copy on selection. Its thoughtful permissions only support essential functionality, ensuring your privacy. Open-source and actively maintained, Swift Selection Search is the ideal tool to accelerate your online searches directly from your browser.

## Rankings

- #802 — Overall
- #15 — Search Tools
- #16 — Other extensions
- #1 — selection
- #2 — lift
- #2 — section

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `contextMenus`
- `search`
- `storage`
- `webNavigation`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users overall praise Swift Selection Search for its intuitive UI and strong customization, easy setup, and solid usefulness across many engines with cross-site search capabilities. Backup/restore is highlighted as a valuable feature. A few suggestions appear in some reviews, such as better organization for large engine lists, localization, link-text support, and Android Firefox availability, plus notes on ongoing development, but these are not universally reported concerns. Overall, the add-on is regarded as versatile and highly useful for multi-engine search management.

### Pros

- Easy to set up and add new search engines with a clean, intuitive UI
- Deep customization options with a powerful interface, including backup and restore features
- Ability to manage many search engines and perform cross-site searches, reducing reliance on Google
- Generally reliable and highly helpful, with widespread appreciation for its usefulness and versatility

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