# Text Selection Search Plus

> Allows users to search selected text on a web page by right-clicking and choosing the "Text Search" option, providing a convenient and efficient way to conduct text-based searches.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `text-selection-search-plus`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Buffy
- **Category:** search-tools
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-05-30
- **First published:** 2024-05-29
- **Size:** 21 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/text-selection-search-plus/)

## Description

Initiate a text search by selecting text on a web page, right-clicking to access the context menu, and selecting the "Text Search" option, triggering a search query using their preferred search engine.

## Rankings

- #57,944 — Overall
- #90 — selection

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `notifications`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Enables sending notifications which can be spammed but have minimal direct security impact.
- 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/text-selection-search-plus)