Chrome / Edge extension

Context Menu Search

Your browser’s context menu search made easy!

Introduction

The Context Menu Search extension allows you to quickly search selected text using various search engines directly from the context menu (right-click menu) of your browser.

Screenshots

  • Adding a search engine (opens a larger view)
    Adding a search engine
  • Managing search engine order (opens a larger view)
    Managing search engine order

Features

  • Add as many search engines as you need.
  • Easy to use and configure.
  • Increased performance and stability over the original plugin.
  • Improved user interface.
  • Improved configuration management (Google Browser Sync coming soon!)
  • Quickly add and remove search engines to your right-click menu.
  • Choose from a selection of over 70 popular search engines.
  • Open search results in a new tab, with options to open in the foreground or background, and customize tab placement.
  • Effortlessly reorder your search engines within the options screen.

Provided search engines

Web Search
Google, Ask, Bing Search, DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Ecosia, Yahoo! Japan, Yahoo! Search, Dogpile, Metacrawler, Wolfram Alpha, Reddit
Development Search
GitHub, Stack Overflow
Image Search
Google Images, Bing Images, Flickr
News
Google News, Bing News, CNN, BBC World, Yahoo! News, The Guardian
Social Search
Facebook, X/Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, Tumblr, Google Groups, Pinterest, Myspace
Gaming Search
Steam, Epic Games, GOG, Xbox Live, Sony PSN, Twitch
Music & Movies
Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, Last.fm, Yahoo! Music, YouTube Music, Google Play Music, MTV, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes
Videos
YouTube, Google Videos, Bing Videos, Metacafe, Vimeo
Shopping
eBay US, Amazon US, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Newegg, Google Products, Bing Shopping, Yahoo Shopping
Other
Archive.org, Wikipedia EN, Google Definition, Google Scholar
And more…

Manual

Adding a search engine

  1. Go to the extension options page.
  2. Click on “Add Search Engine”.
  3. Enter the name of the search engine.
  4. Enter the URL of the search engine, replacing the search query with %s.
  5. Save the settings.

Using the extension

  1. Select the text you want to search.
  2. Right-click on the selected text.The browser context menu with a Context Menu Search entry
  3. Choose the search engine from the context menu.The Context Menu Search submenu listing the configured search engines
  4. The search results will open in a new tab.