Reviews for Selection Context Search
Selection Context Search by ContainersOnTheGo
Review by ak47wong
Rated 5 out of 5
by ak47wong, 7 years agoThis is absolutely fantastic work. One of the things I missed the most when upgrading to Quantum was losing the old Context Search extension by Ben Basson. Since then I've been delighted to discover that several replacements are available, but I think this one is the best of all of them.
It's super-configurable and you can adjust just about all aspects of how the extension works. The options page is a little tricky to work out initially, but you only need to tweak the defaults if you don't want to get too bogged down in the details.
There are three ways you can perform a search:
a) The normal way, through a sub-menu on the context menu
b) Directly on the context menu without needing the open a sub-menu (by installing the separate "Selection Context Search - mini" extensions)
c) Using the pop-up icons for one-click searching without the context menu
You can control where the search page appears. I prefer it as a background tab next to the current tab.
What I love is that you can replace a number of other extensions with this one. There are extensions that offer to translate the current page for you, but here you can translate either the selected text or the current page. Likewise, there are extensions for performing reverse Google Image searches, but this extension does that too. Brilliant!
REQUEST: Can we please have a blacklist of sites where we can disable this extension because it does NOT play well with JIRA. Too many times have I inserted something like "|!https://www.google.com.au/favicon.ico!|!https://www.google.com.au/favicon.ico!|!https://www.youtube.com/favicon.ico!|!https://en.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico!|" into my JIRA tickets.
It's super-configurable and you can adjust just about all aspects of how the extension works. The options page is a little tricky to work out initially, but you only need to tweak the defaults if you don't want to get too bogged down in the details.
There are three ways you can perform a search:
a) The normal way, through a sub-menu on the context menu
b) Directly on the context menu without needing the open a sub-menu (by installing the separate "Selection Context Search - mini" extensions)
c) Using the pop-up icons for one-click searching without the context menu
You can control where the search page appears. I prefer it as a background tab next to the current tab.
What I love is that you can replace a number of other extensions with this one. There are extensions that offer to translate the current page for you, but here you can translate either the selected text or the current page. Likewise, there are extensions for performing reverse Google Image searches, but this extension does that too. Brilliant!
REQUEST: Can we please have a blacklist of sites where we can disable this extension because it does NOT play well with JIRA. Too many times have I inserted something like "|!https://www.google.com.au/favicon.ico!|!https://www.google.com.au/favicon.ico!|!https://www.youtube.com/favicon.ico!|!https://en.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico!|" into my JIRA tickets.
160 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lisa, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13723926, a year agoIncredibly useful light addon, but it just stopped working on FF129. Is there any support site?
- Rated 1 out of 5by gjon, a year agoA great and very helpful add-on, but it doesn't work since FF version 128.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex Mirnov, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by greenbox6, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18328500, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by algi, a year agoStill 5⭐,but a question as well: Why it stays on only few seconds and when cursor is moved the pop-up shuts off?
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12680106, 2 years agoNice and useful addon. Unfortunately, Google reverse image search doesn't work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by bs, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Painless, 3 years agoHas to be one of the most useful extensions for Firefox but it importing and adding new entries keep resetting.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12935111, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13974823, 3 years ago手軽に検索出来ます
しかも何で調べるのか指定も設定(検索欄を右クリック)も可能。凄い
カカクコムは文字化けするようなので
http://prx.dip.jp/test/jump_ce.htm#utf8;sjis;https://kakaku.com/search_results/?query=
と言う感じにすると良いそうです - Rated 2 out of 5by kelendral, 3 years agoThis was/is one of the better search addons.
So you might ask why the low review:
1). It was delisted from Google for Privacy Violations. Thus clearly there are Privacy concerns.
2). The code is obfuscated. - Rated 2 out of 5by rediffusion, 3 years agoНет возможно выборочного поиска на нескольких сайтах одновременно. Нет папок и подпапок.
Фигня! 😒 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12799010, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by kkjiang, 3 years agoThe Favicon of each search engine is not "cached" to disk drive, they must to be re-downloaded after every firefox restart, it will be better if these favicons been cached.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17316140, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15978319, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by I need help, 4 years agoDoes not work on "faceitfinder"
We need the last word in the link for work. ~$*$~ - Rated 5 out of 5by 판다, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by wvxwxvw, 4 years agoВсе работает, кроме автокопирования в буфер и никакие настройки не слетают. Упоминаемое ниже расширение даже рядом не валялось с этим аддоном, так как добавляет свой пункт только для выделенного текста, а в этом раздельные подменю для разных контекстов - картинка, фрейм, вкладка, страница, ссылка. Например можно передать адрес картинки для поиска по изображению или адрес сайта/ссылки для для открытия в Google Trnslate, или получения информации о сайте/домене и т.п. Аддон обновлялся два года назад, но даже сейчас он способен добавлять свои пункты в контекстное меню вкладок, в том числе и вкладок TST.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dr.神渡凪, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by sgdl-pers, 4 years agoPreviously this addon worked fine, now though not a single option provided by default works, nor do those I've created myself. Do not waste time downloading.
- Rated 2 out of 5by BlackWinny, 4 years agoI have used it for years. And I was happy with it, I used it extensively all day long. But when it was last updated two years ago, this previously excellent extension suddenly lost the ability to keep personal settings... You have to reload them in memory from your backup every new Firefox session! An extremely annoying and time-consuming process. As a result, the extension loses most of its interest, and the developer seems to have completely abandoned it. About six months ago I switched to another extension, Swift Selection Search, which does exactly the same job (minus the custom sub-menus) but works perfectly and with the same possibility to save personal settings... but which doesn't require to reload them manually at each Firefox session. A dream! This Selection Context Search extension lost all its interest when it was updated two years ago. Better to switch to Swift Selection Search.