# Text Selection Search

> Allows users to search selected text on a web page, providing a convenient and efficient way to conduct text-based searches.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `text-selection-search`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** KUBET
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-10
- **First published:** 2024-04-09
- **Size:** 21 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-05-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/text-selection-search/)

## Description

Can initiate a text search by selecting text on a web page, right-clicking to access the context menu, triggering a search query using their preferred search engine.

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `notifications`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Enables sending notifications which can be spammed but have minimal direct security impact.
- This extension is not longer available in the store

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- [srch](https://chrome-stats.com/d/simple-search-selected-text) — 3 users
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- [Select and Search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/select_and_search) — 5 users
- [Search Selected Text](https://chrome-stats.com/d/search_selected_text) — 1 users
- [Search Selected Text](https://chrome-stats.com/d/searchselectedtext) — 2 users, 5.00 / 5
- [Select and Search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/select-and-search-it) — 2 users
- [Context Web Search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/context-web-search) — 61 users, 4.40 / 5

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