Swift Selection Search

Swiftly access your search engines in a popup panel when you select text in a webpage. Context menu also included!

Swift Selection Search: Fast, Personalized Web Search Add-on

'Swift Selection Search' is a Firefox add-on designed for rapid and personalized web search. It allows users to highlight text on a webpage, providing a popup panel with user-chosen search engines for instant searching. You may choose to use a right-click context menu instead. With customizable settings, you can add new search engines, modify icons' appearance, determine the popup's behavior and location. It also offers an auto-copy feature for text selection. Your privacy matters; SSS does not share your data.
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Add-on stats

Users: 11,968
-40
Rating: 4.76
(658)
1 new ratings
Version: 3.48.0 (Last updated: 2022-08-29)
Creation date: 2015-02-20
Weekly download count: 283
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
  • clipboardWrite
  • contextMenus
  • search
  • storage
  • webNavigation
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
Size: 312.21K
URLs: Website

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Add-on summary

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Swift Selection Search (SSS) is an add-on for quickly searching for selected text using your favorite search engines.

Usage

Select text on a webpage and a small popup will show up with multiple search engines. Press one to search for the selected text using that engine! Google, YouTube, Maps, Amazon... you name it.

Do you prefer using the right-click context menu? Your choice! :) And you can always disable this or the popup in the options menu (see below).

Personalization

SSS is very configurable. Open the "Extensions" menu on Firefox, find "Swift Selection Search" in the list, click the three dots on the corner, and finally click "Options" to explore all the settings.

You can add new search engines for the popup and context search, change the appearance of the icons, what happens when you click them, when/where the popup appears, whether to auto-copy text on selection, etc. Remember to follow the short instructions at the top!

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Highly customizable to individual preferences
  • Saves time and simplifies search processes
  • Supports multiple search engines and apps for selected text
  • Automatically pops up upon highlighting text
  • Indispensable and essential tool for users
Cons
  • Search engine selection could be improved to allow user preference for specific engines
  • Lacks a 'cut to clipboard' function
  • Requires some time to set up and configure
Most mentioned
  • Customization options
  • Time-saving features
  • Support for multiple search engines
  • Automatic popup on text highlight
User reviews
MOVE
by MOVE, 2025-01-28
by Firefox user 18788256, 2025-01-18
highly customisable to my liking. requires bit of googleing to figure out what the actual search string for a website is. but it took me 10 minutes or so and now i have it compact as i wish, and with 2 custom search engines i prefer. awesome extension
by elpadre, 2025-01-12
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Swift Selection Search requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Swift Selection Search has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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