I like this extension, but when the particular version needs additional permissions I'd expect more info about reasons.

Really like this add-on! But I am curious, why in the last update (June 2018) does it ask for permission to download files and read and change the download manager? An explanation from the dev would be nice!

Love this add-on.
It is simple and straight on, just the way I wanted it when I was searching for something just like this.

Love this extension - but is it possible to search for the highlighted keyword in the middle of a URL? For example can I search for "CN2566830" on Google patents by inserting it in the URL between "https://patents.google.com/patent/" and "/en" to build the full URL: https://patents.google.com/CN2566830/en

thanks

Good addon, but keeps on installing crappy search engines I've already deleted. STOP IT!

Still giving high rating as expecting you'll get the recent memory hog issue fixed. I went through and disabled, enabled add-ons individually until confirming this one is causing massive memory usage. At some point, it completely freezes Firefox. This is a new phenomenon and will be missing your useful addon until you've got it fixed.

Extremely useful add-on. The 3.66 version memory problem has been [very quickly] fixed in 3.67.

Memory problem was fixed fast. 5 Stars again..
"Recently massive memory leaks crashing firefox. Otherwise well done.."

The extension is great but after last update causes high CPU and HDD usage by Firefox. Disabling the extension immidiately solves the problem.

Great add-ons...

Hey Olivier don't let the reviews drag you down. People are angry because the current version has a bug. But bugs happen and it does not change the fact that this is a great plugin. Keep up the good work!

Edit: the developer pulled 3.66 which had the memory leak, and it seems to be working well now, making this a handy extension once again.

6/10/18 Edit: It seem that the bug from the previous version has been eliminated, so the extension is back to its normal awesome state. Very useful and provides a very wide range of search options (for the most part, if a website has a "Search" function, you can add it to your context menu and search for the word/phrase you have highlighted on your active page. Very glad it was fixed quickly. Thanks.

Just like the other recent reviewers, I eventually narrowed it down to this add-on that was causing Firefox to use almost all of my available memory (slowing my computer to a crawl). I don't know if it's from a bad update to the extension, or if it can be fixed soon, but for now I'd avoid this add-on like the plague. Which is a shame because it was previously a convenient tool to have available.

Hey works fine now, how bout that. Thanks for fixing it, FF was wack without it. Honestly should be a part of Firefox. Actually for years, for me, it has been. Thank you.

I couldn't figure out why my Firefox memory usage was peaking to 6500 MB on a system with 8GB of RAM...and CPU usage often hovering over 90%. After disabling Context Search version 3.66 Firefox is behaving normally. Memory usage is around 1500 MB, and memory usage and CPU usage is under 10%.

AVOID VERSION 3.66!!

Glad to see the developer has taken the buggy version down. Otherwise this addon is very handy and version 3.65 works just fine.

Version 3.66 has a major memory leak problem. As soon as it's enabled memory usage spikes until Windows complains of low memory. I have to ALT+CTRL+DEL to terminate FF and restart with addons disabled. Previous version doesn't have this issue and works well. Will make due with previous version until 3.66 is fixed. Great Addon BTW.
@Dev, When I encountered the problem with v3.66 I disabled the addon and auto addon update. Then I reverted to v3.65 in "Version History" of this page so I cannot specifically confirm. But upon manually checking for updates, v3.65 shows up as the latest version and no update is required on my end. I understand that bugs do occur and appreciate your hard work.

After "Search Engine Creator" is out of usewith FF 53+, I did try "ContextSearch" and
"Selection ContextSearch".

However I stick with "Context Search".

Only I Need is Synchronization via Firefox Account - I dont want to import settings on each machine.

Then it will be The Best.

Very useful! 5-stars. Developers may consider adding a popup panel similar to "Swift Selection Search" add-on.

The extension is useful.

Just one feature would make it perfect for me:

By right-clicking on TEXT that contains some link you can search for that TEXT (not URL).

Just like FF's native context search does it but with various search engines.
Context Search extention by Ben Basson I used before also did the same.

Would be great. Thanks anyway.

Thank you!
Are you planning to add the ability to right-click on a link and search for the link title?
Right now, right-clicking on a link, I see the word "link" (not the link title) and it does not perform any search.

Thanks a lot for updating this extension for the new beast, I have missed it so much!

Thanks for this nice extension!

Features request:
1. Do not use "storage-sync.sqlite" file to save search engines, please save them in a file in your extension's folder "...\profile\browser-extension-data\olivier.debroqueville@gmail.com".

2. Allow the use of variables so next searches to work:
a) Search selection In current Page (ex: https://www.google.com/search?q={searchTerms}+site:{variable for "doc.location.hostname"}
b) Translate Current Page in ENGLISH (ex: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u=+{variable for "doc.location.href"})
c) Open link in Google Docs Viewer (ex: https://docs.google.com/viewer?hl=en&embedded=true&chrome=true&url={variable for document link})

Thank you