ContextSearch web-ext

Select text and search from the context menu or a tiled popup using any of your installed search engines. Add new search engines with a right-click, edit favicons and query strings. POST compatible, simple UI, highly configurable. For FF 57+

Total ratings for ContextSearch web-ext

4.71 (Rating count: 183)

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Pros

Highly adjustable search bubble
Works with any website that has a search bar
Responsive developer with active Github support

Cons

Complicated and buggy preferences interface
Issues with importing/exporting search engines
May have compatibility issues with certain versions of Firefox

Most mentioned

Highly adjustable search bubble
Issues with importing/exporting search engines
Works with any website that has a search bar
Responsive developer with active Github support

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Recent rating average: 4.10

All time rating average: 4.71

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Date	Author	Comment
2024-03-16	Saud
2023-12-23	LawrenceSan	I've used many, many different extensions in several different browsers over many years. (I'm an experienced web developer, starting when the web was first invented, and can code several different web languages -- in other words, I'm not a newbie.) ContextSearch web-ext has the most complicated, buggy preferences interface I've ever seen in a browser extension. I have it running in both Firefox and Chrome, and when it works it's great -- but trying to customize it, add search engines, etc. is a nightmare. Currently one of the engines in my ContextSearch list is "Google Maps". It works fine in Firefox, but doesn't work at all in Chrome, just leads to a blank page. So I tried exporting it from Firefox into Chrome. Forget it! The export/import features in the extension's customization interface appears to just export the URL for the icon, not for the search engine itself? And some of the gazillion preferences-interface elements for this extension, in both browsers, appear as just solid gray blocks -- regardless of what theme I use, or whether Dark Reader is on or off, or what other interface options I choose for ContextSearch itself. Of the options (including links) that I can see clearly, most of them don't do anything like what their name implies or what I'd expect them to do. I haven't given up on it because, for the engines I finally get working, it's very useful. But I spend more time wrestling with this interface than with all my other (many) installed extensions put together!
2023-12-08	Firefox user 5599219
2023-10-18	Firefox user 12680106
2023-10-14	HypnotizedNarcissist	For me one of the best addons here! bravo Mike B
2023-08-30	Kadircan Erşahin	Can't save engines. to save new engine it needs add(save) it twice. Suggestion: custom transparency option for popups
2023-08-23	mimigu	Versions after May no longer work. I would like to downgrade to an earlier version but can't find it.
2023-07-30	bezuma
2023-06-03	Alwaysliumx
2023-05-16	OzMerry	Love this add-on and use it all the time, but as of today 16-May-2023 (same date as last updated), it no longer works. Clicking on the icon in the overflow toolbar does nothing. I hope this can be fixed soon. Edit: Thank you for responding. I've reported the issue on Github, as requested. I'm happy to try debugging advice (I'm in Australia, so probably a time difference).

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