About this extension

Search Selected Text

https://github.com/dpi0/search-selected-text

Search Selected Text is a simple tool for Firefox users to search selected text on various websites using customizable keyboard shortcuts and context menu options.

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Features

Keyboard Shortcuts: Quickly search selected text on popular websites.

Alt+X: Search on Google

Alt+Y: Search on YouTube

Alt+O: Search on Oxford Dictionary

Alt+I: Search on ChatGPT

...and many more!

Context Menu Integration: Right-click on selected text to search using context menu options.

Search on Google
Search on YouTube
Search on Oxford Dictionary
Search on Letterboxd
Search on ChatGPT
...and many more!

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Here’s how you can help:

Fork the repository.
Create a new feature branch (git checkout -b feature/your-feature-name).
Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some feature').
Push to the branch (git push origin feature/your-feature-name).
Open a pull request.

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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Release notes for 2.1

# Changelog

## [2.1] - 2025-01-30

### 🚀 Features

- Add more useful search engines
- Add wikipedia search & rename shortcut names
- Bump to version 2.1 and add google images keybind

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- Icons visibility in light mode

### 💼 Other

- Update icons, context menu & shortcut title and remove 1337x
- Remove all node/webextension files

### 📚 Documentation

- Update README.md and add screenshot
- Update README.md

### ⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

- Update README
- Refactor background.js and move icons into subfolder
- Rename root folder and LICENSE
- Rename context menu items & remove imdb
- Sort items alphabetically & update amazon url to .com

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