Selection Search

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Search for the selected text in search engines

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Description from store With this extension you can easily search for text you have selected. When some text is selected you can left click the selected text to get a popup where you can choose a search engine to search with. In the options page you can customize the look of the menu, which mouse button that should activate the menu, which search engines to show, and a lot of other things. ************************************** When you install this extension you will get a warning that this extension can: "Access your data on all websites." This is needed because the code for the popup-menu needs to be added to every website for it to work. ************************************** If you want to report a bug/issue, please use the following site: https://github.com/Pitmairen/selection-search/issues Alternatively you can use the support section on this site (chrome web store), but I get no notifications about new posts, so I may not notice the message. ************************************** Source code: https://github.com/Pitmairen/selection-search ************************************** Donations: Some people have asked for ways to make donations to the project. If you want to make a donation you can do so by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pitmairen ************************************** Changelog: 0.9.3 - Fix issue where some icons failing to load could trigger a loop in the image loading, which could cause high CPU usage and pages failing to load. 0.9.2 - Improvements to icon loading. The icons are now loaded in the background worker, similar to how it was done in the 0.8.* versions of the extensions. This should make the icons load faster and with less chance of icons failing to load. Note: The icons are cached in the sessions store provided by the browser. This storage has limited capacity. If you have a lot of search engines or have many large custom icons, you can hit the limit. This will cause some icons to fail to load. If this happens try to use smaller icons if you have custom icons. If that does not help report the issue as it may be possible to make the usage of the storage more efficient if necessary. You can also hit the limit if you make a lot of changes to your search engines in one go, but this should be fixable by just restarting the browser as this will cleanup old entries in the storage. 0.9.1 - Fix issue with context menu items requiring two clicks to work - Fix issue where the context menu items was not added properly - Fix issue where hitting enter in the toolbar search box would not open the first search engine - Changed icon loading to use the icon urls directly, instead of loading the icons in the background, as the background loading does not work properly with manifest v3. This will probably also fix some issues where custom svg images would not load. 0.9.0 - Major rewrite of internals to migrate the extension to manifest V3, as required by Chrome for the extension to continue to work. - No new features or bug fixes in this release. 0.8.64 - Added search-url variable PAGE_QS_VAR_NO_ENCODING to allow query string variables without encoding 0.8.63 - Added new buttons to allow adding new search engines/separators/submenus at specific positions in the search engine list 0.8.62 - Added search-url variable %PAGE_ORIGIN_NO_ENCODING, same as %PAGE_ORIGIN, but without URL encoding 0.8.61 - Added option to enable the search engine popup blacklist/whitelist to also affect the search engine hotkeys. The options is located under Popup menu -> Advanced -> Blacklist/whitelist. 0.8.60 - Don't try to load settings from sync storage if sync is disabled in settings, this could fail in some special cases. 0.8.59 - Add option to open seaches in a small popup window 0.5.58 - Fix issue where the popup could be partially positioned outside the top of the browser window and become unreachable. Mostly an issue for very large popup menus with many search engines. 0.8.57 - Fix mycroft integration. - Add an additional source for search engine icons that is used if the default source does not have an icon. 0.8.56 - Added special search engine marker for sites requiring encodings other than UTF-8. Simply append {SPECIALENCODING} to the end of the search engine url. This enables the feature and the browser should be able to auto detect the correct encoding. 0.8.55: - Possible fix for freezing tabs for searches opened in new foreground tab 0.8.54: - Revert escape feature (}) added in previous release. This broke some search placeholders. 0.8.53: - Added option to open search in new window - Make it possible to add search url to the submenu root item. If a search url is added it will open when clicking the submenu root item, unless the openall on click option is checked. - Improved replacement of bracket placeholders ({%s}). If "}" must be used inside the placeholder it can now be escaped using "}". - Improved regexp placeholder replace converter. The old "re:" converter still works for backwards compatibility. The new improved converter is called "replace:", and is documented under "More Variables" at the top of the options page. 0.8.52: - Upgraded to latest jquery version to get latest security fixes 0.8.51: - Fix issue with saving changed settings on options page For full changelog see: https://github.com/Pitmairen/selection-search#changelog

Latest reviews

(2024-10-18) Oleksander Dudar: The best of its kind. If it also had custom reverse image search integrated it would be just perfect..!
(2024-02-10) عبدالله السليمان: أسرع طريقة للبحث بتظليل الكلمة أو الجملة ، واختيار أي محرك بحث من القائمة التي تظهر لك والتي تستطيع أن تضيف عليها ما تشاء من محركات البحث . أداة أعتقد أن الجميع لن يستغني عنها بعد تجربتها .
(2023-11-06) Grün Blau Gelb: Spy app???? Often opens a popup, but only during a password entry. It seems to me that this is a security risk!
(2023-10-06) William Angel: Excelent
(2023-09-28) Mil Steve: O.O Awesome esta increíble el Addon Crome sobre todo por los atajos de teclado. Recomendación al programador: *Se recomienda al programador si puede hacer un vídeo de ejemplo. *Seria necesario diferenciar las teclas: ctrl-L y ctrl-R Shitf-L y Shitf-R Alt-L y Alt-R *Crear una columna para ver los atajos de teclado rápido y cambiarlos al momento *Tiene un bug en el buscador 14 cierro Chrome y lo vuelvo a abrir y desaparecieron mis links, pero los botones los conservo Datos: Lo use en Linuxmint XCFE a 64 Bits Navegador Brave Voy a recomendar el Add a mis conocidos y mis familiares. Gracias al Programador por darle seguimiento al Add Chrome por los Updates :D
(2023-06-21) Tomas Karlsson: must have honestly,
(2023-06-09) Duxast 33: Прекрасное расширение , но есть что улучшить . Если на словах "Sasha Grey" совершить поиск то в результате расширение напишет "Sasha%20Grey" , в большинстве случаев это будет работать но на некоторых сайтах работает только "Sasha-Grey" и "Sasha+Grey" .
(2023-06-02) Feral Berry: Идеальное расширение, для меня, так как делаю поиск на многих сайтах одновременно, например когда ищу инфу про кино. Лучшее и удобнее всех остальных поисковых расширений
(2023-04-29) Luce: Extremely useful, highly customizable, and the popup menu is clean. Has been a game changer for my language learning.
(2023-04-18) Jawad Ahmed: Best Extension Ever
(2023-04-06) W Ultra: .popup .engine-name, .popup.mainmenu > li:first-child{ display: none; } .popup a, .popup li{ display: inline-block; padding: 1px; } .popup img{ margin: 2px; padding: 0; } .popup { width: 80px; padding: 0px; white-space:auto; } .popup .engine-separator{ width: 1px; height: 20px; margin: 0 3px 3px 3px; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; } /*CONFIG_START {"submenu_position":"topright","submenu_corner":"bottomleft"} CONFIG_END*/
(2023-03-21) Val Och: Great extension, super handy for looking up stuff in Wolfram Alpha. Very customizable when it comes to activating its function. My only wish would be to have icons also show up in context menu mode, which I find to be the most intuitive to use, but I understand that it might be hard to implement due to Chrome's own limitations.
(2023-03-16) Black Gold: Love it. It should be the default feature of chrome. Works flawlessly. I added my custom search engines and all of them work.
(2023-02-25) misuzu suzuki: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(2023-02-12) Yufan Yi: 用了很多年的扩展了，对我而言唯一的痛点就是在菜单栏弹出窗口搜索时，按Enter键窗口会消失，中英文混合输入的时候不太方便。
(2023-02-11) Shmuel: Using this now for over a year and it's fantastic
(2023-02-10) Saphabodi K.: While it is a truly great extension, it can be annoying when it pops up in an edit box. So, I suggest that there be an option to prevent its from popping up in an edit box, as in Firefox.
(2023-01-10) Huy Bac: Excellent, best search engine extention!!!!
(2023-01-09) 湖秋: Only one thing troubled me a lot.When selected done then the menu window always block the copy function(original rightclick menu).Could it be imprve in next version.Thanks!
(2023-01-05) Thomas Breitenbach: Fantastic tool! I use it so much! The customisation is awesome.
(2022-12-20) Michel: It won't open multiple windows/tabs/search results when in a chrome app window. I guess there's no way around that? Other than that the extension is a great addition to my browsing experience.
(2022-11-22) P. P.: copy would be fine
(2022-11-09) Oleg Loewen: Awesome tool! However, if I have not defined any parameter in 'Search URL' , when I click on the link, nothing happens. I still need to pass some text selection. Can't you make text selection non required if the Search URL doesn't have any argument? As developer I have multiple environments - I want to navigate to favorite sites based on current URI. Example search URL: https://%PAGE_HOST/watch?v=jfKfPfyJRdk Expected behavior: without any text selection a new tab shall be opened.
(2022-10-22) Παναγιώτης Σιώμος: Amazing extension! May be there is a similar for thunderbird ?
(2022-08-15) Massa Positiva: Right-clicking requires icon support because this feature is more practical for highlighting text. Selecting text with the left mouse button often resets the selection itself or does not work at all on some sites!
(2022-08-02) Camille: Super extension, c'est totalement personnalisable dans les options et très pratique !
(2022-07-25) 케일: 오늘 처음 설치했는데 매우 편리하고 유용하며 좋습니다. !! 한가지 아쉬운 점은 파이어폭스에서 오래전 사라진 'Organize Search Engines'이란 앱이 비슷한 기능인데 이 앱은 서브 폴더 제목을 클릭하면 그 안에 등록된 엔진들이 다중 검색(Multi Search)이 됩니다. Selection Search도 이 기능이 지원되었으면 좋겠습니다. 그리고 Address Bar에서도 Selection Search가 활성화 되었으면 좋겠네요.
(2022-06-25) Сергей Друзь: It's not perfect. Addon with ugle design 😕
(2022-06-21) kage Shadow912: Very good and useful extension! But... I think that "Icon url" field does not work. e.g. "https://weblio.hs.llnwd.net/e7/img/favicon/ejje.png", size is 144x144 px.
(2022-06-06) German Lebedev: Everything is working as I wanted
(2022-05-14) 刘宁: thanks for your fantastic plugin, very helpful!
(2022-05-13) Lucian Andries: It works and looks great!! But... 1. Finding out that I needed to add this "%s" to the end of all search strings, was annoying. I didn't know why nothing was working... 2. We are in 2022, and we still need to manually copy-paste the freaking text settings into a .txt file to export them? Come on people, make your extensions save .txt / .json files on their own! Also, I hope your extension doesn't "violate the Chrome's Web Store policy", so Google won't take it down..... Because they took down a lot of my favorite extensions, and I did not find any replacements for them.😭😭 But on another note, the Dark Mode is awesome, so thank you!
(2022-03-02) Eeuwe Bergsma: I used a excel with shortcuts etc to search trough all my websites and I wish i searched for a plugin like this before because this is such a time saver. IT has a lot op functional options and is really simple to use. The only thing i wish for a update is beging to able to use the keyboard to move trough the search options when you use the toolbar popup in the topright of your browser (That you can open with a chrome shortcut)
(2022-03-02) Κανάλι: There is a problem with how Search Engines search. For example, in IMDb and Wikipedia, I copy the url from the previous extension, Search Context Search, such as https://www.imdb.com/find?q=, and when I open imdb from the pop-up options of this extension, it does not search for the word which I have chosen, but the web site open with just the search empty. It's good exten. but this, makes the extension essentially non-functional. Can you fix it? Thanks
(2022-02-22) Denys: бесполезность. как ни настраивал не работает и все. не на все выделение реагирует. там есть. там нету. дичь короче полная.
(2022-02-21) Atul Singh: It's very good. Please add the feature to let it automatically copy the selection.
(2022-02-16) Роман НетФамилии: Отличное расширение, гибко настраивается. Экспорт/импорт настроек и еще много чего
(2022-01-25) Mr. Eagle: Great timesaving tool.
(2022-01-21) William F: This doesn't work but if it did I would want it to bring up in the Right click menu since that's where all my other "Right click search" extensions show after highlighting text and right clicking. I only need this for Reddit since I have other extensions for everything else and couldn't find one specifically for Reddit. I would also like to click "Search this term on reddit" directly from the right click menu rather than having to go into an second context popup for Selection Search to find the option to click. Hopefully it's working again soon and please notify me when it is.
(2021-12-31) radhekrishan rathod: I have no idea how this will work. Maybe it's not working because of other extensions.
(2021-12-13) Umar Karim: Very useful, saves time
(2021-12-05) Xedd MrC: Does exactly what it said it does. Rare to find these nowadays. 5/5 Earned easily!
(2021-12-05) Foster: Thanks but there are a few problems. It reloads the icon image after each launch, sometimes network problems cause the icon to not load. Can it save the icons offline? Can only select the search engine after typing, refer to Firefox Browser/SearchAll Extension you can select the search engine before typing the content and then type enter. I typed enter and it searched immediately, in fact I was just using the input method to select words, which is not friendly to Chinese and Japanese input.
(2021-11-20) doc walk: 이런류에서는 가장 만족 하면서 사용하고 있는데 검색어 엔진을 많이 추가 하니깐 팝업 메뉴가 길어져서..페이지 위에서검색을 하면 팝업메뉴 위쪽검색엔진들이 짤려서 보이지가 않아요.. 인터넷 페이지에 제일 상단이니 위로 스크롤도 할수가 없어서 뭘 할수가 없네요. 이거 업데이트좀 해주세요.
(2021-11-13) Lift Kit: I wish I had known something like this existed, unbelievably useful.
(2021-08-17) koala z: 太棒了！
(2021-07-18) This is already possible to do without this extension. But I can only search with Google. So having it for searching selections with other search engines besides Google is useful. Thank you for creating this. Works great!
(2021-07-17) 徐天培: 同类型最强大扩展，设置界面不太友好，容易错过。
(2021-07-16) Alex Paul: Одно из самых лучших расширений. Очень давно искал такое..
(2021-06-07) silver gold: 완벽한 검색기능 확장프로그램임 이거 없으면 네 인터넷 생활의 안락함이 반은 박살날 듯

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