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Add support for contextual identities Create new tab with the same contextual identity as the current tab and open the search results in newly created tab. Accessing the tab's cookieStoreId property requires the "cookies" permission.
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date Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:22:48 +0100
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1 Context Web Search
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2 ==================
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4 Context Web Search is a Firefox Addon which enables searching for selected
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5 text or link text with any one of the browser's configured search engines via
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6 the page context menu.
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8 Usage
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11 In order to search for the currently selected text, open the context menu on
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12 the same page and choose the desired search engine in the submenu named
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13 'Search "<term>" with...'.
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15 In order to search for the text of a link, make sure no other text is selected
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16 on that page, open the context menu on top of the desired link text and choose
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17 the desired search engine in the submenu named 'Search "<link text>" with...'.
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19 Contact
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22 Please send any feedback, translations or bug reports via email to
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25 Bug Reports
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26 -----------
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28 When sending bug reports, please always mention the exact version of the addon
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29 with which the issue occurs as well as the version of Firefox and the operating
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30 system you are using and make sure that you provide sufficient information to
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31 reproduce the issue and include any error messages.
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33 License
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36 Except otherwise noted, all files are Copyright (C) 2018 Guido Berhoerster and
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39 Copyright (C) 2018 Guido Berhoerster <guido+cws@berhoerster.name>
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41 This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
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42 License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
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