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1. Todero says:

   December 4, 2009 at 12:36 pm

   Another usefull, simple and not invading extension. Thanks for share it!
2. perzo says:

   December 4, 2009 at 11:16 pm

   Yep, it’s very nice.
3. Skylinar says:

   December 5, 2009 at 12:26 am

   Very nice! I like it veru much. Can it be easy to add the search engine? like some web chrome ever goes that chrome will automatic record it engine.
4. DuDe says:

   December 5, 2009 at 4:53 am

   Nice one! I only had one problem, while testing:

   I marked some random words on a webpage, and when I opened up the context menu, the box above overlapped the menu so I couldn’t see all of the search engines in the menu…could be some markup issue?
5. hexaae says:

   December 5, 2009 at 6:42 am

   Useful! Just like IE8.
6. StefO says:

   December 5, 2009 at 7:07 pm

   Really great extention!!

   Sorry if it is a stupid question, but what is the url for YouTube search?
   And how can i find search urls for other websites?
7. andreyp says:

   December 6, 2009 at 1:30 pm

   Thanks for feedback, guys.

   Skylinar:
   > Can it be easy to add the search engine? like some web chrome ever goes that chrome will automatic record it engine.
   - I thought about it. You see, if extension adds searching engines automatically, there will be a lot of them. But I’m not sure that you will use all of them through menu. So, I decided that user will add what he want by himself.

   DuDe:
   > I marked some random words on a webpage, and when I opened up the context menu, the box above overlapped the menu so I couldn’t see all of the search engines in the menu…could be some markup issue?
   - If the box (that overlapped menu) is flash, it will always overlap html elements (if it has no wmode parameter). But if it is no flash, this could be bug. Give me the link in this case.

   StefO:
   > what is the url for YouTube search?
   - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s&page={startPage?}&utm_source=opensearch
   > And how can i find search urls for other websites?
   - You can surf searching engines added by chrome (into chrome preferences). Also you can search something with your searching engine (for example ’some string’) and then take url and put ‘%s’ insdead of ’some string’.
8. ChaCha Fance says:

   December 6, 2009 at 10:38 pm

   I love this. Very useful! Thanks
9. StefO says:

   December 7, 2009 at 2:03 pm

   @andreyp: Thank you for the explanation. It was much easier with the second advice!
10. korzeniow says:

    December 7, 2009 at 8:46 pm

    @andreyp, in my opinion more useful would be if you would implement hotkekys (set by users) like in extension Bubble Translate. you mark word, or sentence with some hotkey e.g. crtl and only then triangle shows up. Otherwise this triangle can be annoying.
11. andreyp says:

    December 9, 2009 at 5:34 am

    korzeniow:
    Thanks. I’ll think about it.
    On the one hand it will make sense because it won’t annoy when you don’t want to search. But on the other hand it will be an extra action if you really want to search, and this extra action will annoy.
12. soul_traveller says:

    December 13, 2009 at 8:27 am

    Great extension love it thanks a lot
13. anonymgz says:

    December 13, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    make folders and submit to chrome extensions page, please.
14. 6b616e says:

    December 16, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    in chromium 4.0.270 theres a bug. the new tabs open in popups.
15. Ian says:

    December 17, 2009 at 6:02 am

    It seems silly that this extension does not use the built in list of search engines within chrome.
16. Incognito says:

    December 18, 2009 at 2:59 am

    This extension is a good idea, but it makes fall Acid Test 3 to 97/100 instead of 100/100… please try to fix this…
17. man1 says:

    December 18, 2009 at 11:07 pm

    It doesn’t operate in address https.
18. andreyp says:

    December 23, 2009 at 4:00 am

    Thanks guys for reporting me.
    Some problems are localized and will be fixed soon, some is quite mysterious and difficult.
    Anyway, please give me links to the pages where the plugin does not work. It will help me to localize and debug the problem.

    Ian: Of course it would be great to use the list of serching engines that chrome collects. But unfortunately chrome is quite close for plugins. It does not allow using a lot of its features including list of searching engines.

    man1: It should work. I tried some https pages and it looks fine. Please give me the link.
19. man1 says:

    December 25, 2009 at 12:47 am

    I worked in https except this link.
    https://chrome.google.com/extensions/

    ver. 4.0.249.43
20. 6b616e says:

    December 25, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    I love your extension, really! it changed my surfing experience. But please, add folders and subfolders, so i can make a hierarchy. this would be great.

    thx for the work,
    6b616e
21. 6b616e says:

    December 25, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    and unfortunatly in chrome and chromium >4.0.249 (linux) it still opens popups instead of tabs. this keeps me off updating. i know, it’s not your fault. the chromium devs must have changed something… but i’m sure you are able to fix this!

    6b616e
22. Fred S says:

    December 26, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    I’m using the latest Chrome beta build & Context Search 0.8.8. Works great but I have one problem. It looks like your extension stores changes as a cookie. If I clear out my cookies on exiting Chrome I loose any mods I made to Context Search. I guess I can just NOT delete cookies but I like to clean-up after I browse. Any other suggestions.
23. andreyp says:

    December 29, 2009 at 5:56 am

    Subfolders are great idea. I will add posibility working with them. Not right away but
24. Nishil says:

    January 6, 2010 at 9:23 pm

    Good work! But Chrome 4.0.249.43 in Windows 7 opens as pop ups. Pls fix if possible.
25. manoflamancha says:

    January 10, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    Yes, this would be incredibly handy except for the fact that it shows the results in a popup, which is irritating because you have to allow the popup, etc. Until the results open in a new tab I’ll keep using my custom search bookmarklets.
26. tombo says:

    January 14, 2010 at 8:20 pm

    This is awesome! Can you please make it so that rarely used search engines can be “hidden” under a sub-category, like in IE8’s Accelerators?

    Suggestion: Add an option to the Options page to list search engines based on alphabet, frequent usage.

    Thanks!!!
27. tombo says:

    January 15, 2010 at 12:48 am

    Another option I’d like to see if change the highlight color for selecting a search engine (the grey color is too bland).
28. Ravi says:

    January 17, 2010 at 1:10 pm

    Hey,
    Thanks for this great extension.Its one of the must have extensions.

    One suggestion for you – The size of arrow marked button (which pops out after selecting the text) is somewhat smaller than it should be.It is somewhat irritating. One really have to be careful while navigating to that arrow.
    So it would be of greater if you increase the size of that button by some amount.It would make life better for one while using it.

    Hope to see more from you.

    Keep Rocking \m/
29. RJF says:

    January 30, 2010 at 2:23 am

    Great extension, given that Google does not allow alternative search engines to appear in Chromium’s “native” context menu! (which is quite ridiculous, by the way)

    Two questions though:
    1. isn’t it possible for your extension to use the search engines we already saved in Chrome?
    It may be a silly question, since you have certainly thought of it already. But, just in case…

    and 2. it would be nice if the box opened automatically as soon as the user selects some text! This is how AutoContext add-on for Firefox works. It saves me an extra click. This behaviour could be optional of course, so that every user may decide if they want it (I would)

    Thank you!