# User Defined Search

> Search selected text using your preferred search engines. The preferred search engine can be set from the addon. Right-click or Shift-click on selected text and click on the search.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `user-defined-search`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Nabendu
- **Category:** search-tools,alerts-updates,other
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2018-07-22
- **Size:** 14 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/user-defined-search/)
- **Website:** [https://nabendu82.github.io/](https://nabendu82.github.io/)

## Description

User Defined Search is a Firefox add-on that allows you to search selected text on a web page using your favorite search engines. It provides the flexibility to customize the search engine and makes searching easier and more efficient.

## Rankings

- #116,319 — Overall
- #49 — define
- #156 — defi

## 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/user-defined-search)