Context Menu Search

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.