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ContextSearch web-ext by Mike B

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Review by The Beard Below My Chin
by The Beard Below My Chin, 7 years ago
This one is brilliant. I tried a couple context menu add-ons and this one is like context menu on steroids. It supports GET and POST methods which opens opportunities to many other services. You can use any icons you want. And it's highly configurable, more than other add-ons. It also adds toolbar icon that acts as an alternative to the search bar which saves screen real estate.

One thing that bothers me is that modifying the default engines; removing tracking parameters for example, results in a 'name already exist' error. Which is bizarre. (edit: fixed as of v1.6.0.3... That has to be a record fast response)

Feature request:
1) Javascript/Bookmarklet support.

Edit:
Use short javascript snippets for more advanced local operations e.g. Find&Replace all instances of a word in a text box or copy and format selected text as bbcode, etc.

2) Search button: Save search history / always show last query
3) Search button: Make autocomplete optional
4) Search button: Match browser theme
5) Search button: Support middleclick

Edit:
Thanks for taking the time and listening.

Developer response

posted 7 years ago
> One thing that bothers me is that modifying the default engines; removing tracking parameters for example, results in a 'name already exist' error. Which is bizarre.

That's a definite bug that must have popped up when I added the ability to change the name. I'll fix that today.

(edit) 6-13
v1.6.0.3 should fix the problem

> 1) Javascript/Bookmarklet support.

(edit 6-15) Ready for v1.6.1

>Edit:
>Use short javascript snippets for more advanced local operations e.g. Find&Replace all instances of a word in a text box or copy and format selected text as bbcode, etc.

Are you wanting to access bookmarklets from the context menu when using the option to manage search engines via bookmarks? If you have a github account, start a new topic at the support site so I can get more info.

> 2) Search button: Save search history / always show last query
> 3) Search button: Make autocomplete optional

(edit 6-14) Ready for v1.6.1

> 4) Search button: Match browser theme

(edit 6-14) Having some problems with this one. Can't seem to get color values for built-in themes like Dark. I'll keep on it.

> 5) Search button: Support middleclick
Ready for v1.6.1
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