Context Menu Search

Right click highlighted text to search it with your favorite engines. When you spend most of your day reading online—whether it’s market research, academic papers, or troubleshooting guides—you eventually notice how often you copy a snippet of text, open a new tab, paste it into a search box, and hit Enter. It is such a common micro-task that you hardly register the wasted seconds—until you install Context Menu Search. With a single right-click the extension launches your query in the engine of your choice, shaving dozens of clicks every hour and hundreds over the course of a workweek. The core mechanic is delightfully simple: Highlight any text on a web page. Right-click to reveal a parent entry labelled “Search with ›”. Hover to see your personal list of search engines Click the engine, and a new tab opens with the query already populated. Out of the box the extension ships with a single entry—Google—so non-technical users can start immediately. Power users, however, can click Options and unleash a surprisingly rich editor: Unlimited engines. Add as many providers as you like by entering a display name and a URL template (https://example.com/search?q=%s). Drag-and-drop ordering. The sequence of rows determines the submenu order, letting you put your most-used engine under the cursor hotspot. JSON import/export. Copy your configuration as a JSON block, paste it into a different browser, or version-control it in a dotfile repo. Live preview. As soon as you hit Save, the service worker catches the storage change event and rebuilds the context menu, no reload required.