webextensions-examples/menu-search

menu-search

A demo of the search API.

What it does

This add-on retrieves the list of installed search engines, and adds a context menu item for each one, displayed in the "selection" context.

Each context menu item searches for the selected text using the corresponding search engine.

This enables a user to:

• select some text to search for
• activate the context menu
• choose which search engine to use for the search.

What it shows

• How to retrieve the set of search engines.
• How to search using a specific search engine.