
Swift Selection Search by Daniel Lobo
Swiftly access your search engines in a popup panel when you select text in a webpage. Context menu also included!
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About this extension
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!
ABOUT PERMISSIONS:
Among other arguably less intrusive permissions, SSS also requires permission to "Access your data for all websites". This is simply to fix a problem that caused the popup to not work in pages that use frames. SSS does not care about what sites you use and does not send your data anywhere. (Well, if you ask it, it can backup settings to Firefox Sync!)
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SSS is an open source project made by Daniel Lobo with the collaboration of awesome people on GitHub. :)
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!
ABOUT PERMISSIONS:
Among other arguably less intrusive permissions, SSS also requires permission to "Access your data for all websites". This is simply to fix a problem that caused the popup to not work in pages that use frames. SSS does not care about what sites you use and does not send your data anywhere. (Well, if you ask it, it can backup settings to Firefox Sync!)
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SSS is an open source project made by Daniel Lobo with the collaboration of awesome people on GitHub. :)
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This add-on needs to:
- Input data to the clipboard
- Access browser activity during navigation
- Access your data for all websites
This add-on may also ask to:
- Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history
- Access browser tabs
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- Version
- 3.47.5
- Size
- 305,28 KB
- Last updated
- 4 maande gelede (27 Feb 2022)
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- License
- The MIT License
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Release notes for 3.47.5
3.47.5
- Fixed a bug breaking the in-browser display of non-HTML documents (such as XML) when the popup appeared.
3.47.4
- Fixed a bug causing some rare webpages to have a broken layout and missing content, even when the popup is not present.
3.47.3
- Minor fix for the Google Translate default search engine.
- Small text changes in the options page.
3.47.2
- Fixed problems with opening searches in the previous version, mainly if “new tab” add-ons were installed.
- Sadly, as a consequence of the fix above, engines imported from the browser can again only use “Open in this tab” / ”Open in new tab” as click behaviours.
- Fixed being able to change the name of engines imported from the browser, and therefore breaking them.
3.47.0
- Added support for groups of engines (click a group to search using all engines contained within). [Thanks to Igor Costa!]
- [feature removed in fix; see above]
- Mitigated problem causing “Discard on open” engines to sometimes not having time to search before the tab got discarded.
- Minor cosmetic and text changes/fixes in settings page.
- Minor changes to default search engines.
- Fixed a bug breaking the in-browser display of non-HTML documents (such as XML) when the popup appeared.
3.47.4
- Fixed a bug causing some rare webpages to have a broken layout and missing content, even when the popup is not present.
3.47.3
- Minor fix for the Google Translate default search engine.
- Small text changes in the options page.
3.47.2
- Fixed problems with opening searches in the previous version, mainly if “new tab” add-ons were installed.
- Sadly, as a consequence of the fix above, engines imported from the browser can again only use “Open in this tab” / ”Open in new tab” as click behaviours.
- Fixed being able to change the name of engines imported from the browser, and therefore breaking them.
3.47.0
- Added support for groups of engines (click a group to search using all engines contained within). [Thanks to Igor Costa!]
- [feature removed in fix; see above]
- Mitigated problem causing “Discard on open” engines to sometimes not having time to search before the tab got discarded.
- Minor cosmetic and text changes/fixes in settings page.
- Minor changes to default search engines.
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You can still report severe bugs you find to the GitHub issues page https://github.com/CanisLupus/swift-selection-search/issues. Thanks!