Type to Search

Name: Type to Search
Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Author: Robbendebiene

Your next web search is just a key away. Just type on your keyboard to open a search bar and search with one of your search engines.

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Features & Capabilities

How does it work? Whenever your caret is not positioned in any writeable input field, you can immeditly search with the Type to Search search bar by pressing any character key. Alternatively you can define a trigger key, to only open the search bar when this particular key is pressed.

Features:

Switch between your browser's search engines via up/down arrow keys, mouse wheel or by typing in keywords at the beginning of a search. Keywords can be assigned in the search section of the Firefox settings.
Automatically appends the selected text (if any) to the current search. You can also press the enter key to open the search bar containing only the current text selection.

Limitations:

Type to Search does not work on Mozilla related pages like [addons.mozilla.org](https://addons.mozilla.org), internal pages like about:addons or other add-on option pages (e.g. moz-extension://*). This is because Firefox restricts add-ons from accessing these pages for security reasons.
The page must be partially loaded in order to use Type to Search.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Robbendebiene

Daily users:

Rating:

5.00

(5)

Version:

1.0.1 Last updated: 2020-08-06

Version code:

5076796

Creation date:

2020-07-25

Risk:

Permissions:

<all_urls>
search
storage

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

24.44KB

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-06

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 48,851 ▼ 145

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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.

Developed by:

Robbendebiene

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/type-to-search/

Website:

https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Type-to-Search/issues

User Reviews

by an*****, 2021-02-02

by pi*****, 2021-01-13

Great Addon!

by Fi*****, 2021-01-11

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Is Type to Search 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.

Type to Search 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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Type to Search 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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