Considering that Microsoft Edge is another Chromium derivative, couldn't it be added in the Edge extension store?

Hello there. First of all, thank you so much for developing such a useful and feature-rich extension, it's truly wonderful. Although, I sincerely hope it hasn't been abandoned.

A few minutes after I installed the extension for the first time, I opened my discord (web version), and a frustrating little bug presented itself after selecting a few words to copy:

As you can see, for some reason the borders separating the options are gone and the text gets smushed together into one big word. Additionally, other things seem to be broken on Discord as well: I have Google and DuckDuckGo both set as search methods, yet when I hover over the 'search' option, neither shows up. I also have the "Remove text selection after selected action" set to true and that doesn't work either. When I click copy, for example, the selected text stays selected and the popup menu doesn't disappear.
The extension so far seems to be working perfectly on every other website I've visited. So hopefully this is a simple issue that can be easily fixed!

Thank you so much!

(Ps: One other nitpick if that's ok: When I select a word or a sentence in a text field and I delete it/replace it, the popup menu stays visible until I click somewhere else. Would it be possible to have it disappear the moment I delete/replace a selection?)

Firefox 97.0.1
Selecton 3.5.5

My "Panel behavior" settings:

Although I have deactivated the closing of the panel when I press the middle button, it still closes.

There seems to be a special panel for text fields in the options but why can't we have the regular panel?

Arch Linux
Google Chrome 96.0.4664.110
Selecton v3.4.1

I think this bug will be difficult to debug because it only happens sometimes.
Sometimes when I select text and want to open several searches in new background tabs with middle-click, it doesn't work. It simply hides the popup without doing anything.
However, if I minimize and immediately restore the Google Chrome window, it works again.

Selecting "No effect" as Tooltip Reveal effect in the settings causes a mis-alignment issue on tooltip. If you select another option other than the "No effect", everything works fine.

I really want to ditch Opera's own "Search pop-up" feature in favor of Selecton but your extensions doesn't seem to work on some websites, Google Search (google.com) being one of them. There's no pop up if I select the text.

Is this a feature or a bug?

I am able to export Settings but when I tried to import them the Settings menu dropdown just closes but nothing is imported.

SOLVED: Opened extensions page and then options for this extension and import works fine that way but NOT using the Extensions button in the toolbar.

Selecton upgraded to Version 3.6.7 today and now the "copy" option doesn't work and the selection pop-up won't go away when you click elsewhere on the page. I haven't tested out all the other features, but some are definitely working as normal.

• Vivaldi: 5.5.2805.38 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
• OS: Windows 11

Please let me know what other information you need.

I'm not having an actual problem, but it is sort of an issue.

The dictionary function almost always fails to produce a definition. Any chance that you can use dictionary.com or some other reference to check for definitions? You use Wikipedia currently it seems, hopefully there is a better option that works more often you can implement.

Thank you, this is one of the best extensions in terms of usefulness and I'm glad to have stumbled across it on reddit when you first released it.

Installed in ms Edge via Chrome Web Store

over the edge

Hi, could you add an option to have multiple search engines available? It would be something like this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/contextsearch-web-ext/

I sometimes search for a selected text not only in DDG, but on Amazon, YT, etc.

Sometimes I highlight something and then the pop-up goes away because I accidentally press a key (or for some other reason).

Currently there doesn't seem to be a a way to easily retrigger the pop-up. Can we make it so that if the panel isn't selected we can double-press CTRL to re-trigger it? Hopefully this wouldn't interfere with the existing feature to hold CTRL as we highlight to disable word-snapping.

Similar to #7, if you search for text that includes a plus sign it is not included in the search terms. See for example "Paramount+".

Vivaldi v4.3.2439.65 (Stable channel) stable (64 bits)
Selecton v3.4.0

When I select text in a text box (for example here), the popup is not showed.

It will be nice to add a hotkey (Alt/Ctrl/Shift) that will enable snapping the word under the cursor automatically and show the hover panel.

Desired behavior:

• Select big multi-line text -> drag handles appear on the screen
• Scroll page, so that upper drag handle goes off-screen
• Extend selection by dragging bottom drag handle

Current behavior:

• Text selection is getting clipped by screen edge on top

Piece of code related to this issue:

Hi, thanks for a great extension!

I was wondering if someone knows if it is possible (or maybe impossible) that this extension could work with:

• The browsers internal PDF viewer (eg. for Chromium and Firefox). Not sure if access to the text-selection is currently technically possible. If not, I think submitting an issue for this to the browser repo's might be worth a try.

• Self-hosted iframes (same-domain, etc). Looking here, this would seem to be the case for all iframes (not just local ones), when "all_frames": true is set in the manifest.json file.

I actually would love to be able to use this extension in these situations.

Selecton also should have the ability to make a search in a layer.
So nobody has to open always a new tab.
It would raise productivity :)
You could make it like Link Previewer with a previewer box
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-previewer/hhnejjlimgamhpolpjnjdkdcoclldhli

Best with a keyboard shortcut like alt+s
thx

Sometimes I see links on some websites that are not clickable, meaning only the text is there like this.

github.com/emvaized/selecton-extension

When I triple click it, all the text gets selected but Selecton does not show the option to go to that link.
However, if I manually click and drag to select the URL text, Selecton shows the go to that link option.
Would be great if it also worked when you triple clicked on the URL text. Also, notice if the www. isn't there in the beginning, it doesn't work. Not really a huge issue but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

I've noticed if you search multiple words using Selecton which are separated by space like "tall tree", it makes the query URL like this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=tall%20tree

But if you search after going to google.com and typing into the search box, Google makes the query like this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=tall+tree

The search still works though but I was wondering why %20 is being used instead of +

For example, 'add link' pop up on Reddit:

Hi. Is it possible to add romanian currency conversion?

When hightlighted text is long enought, the translation above is formated in one string and goes beyond borders. It would be better if translation area is rectangular and stretches up, containing translation.

It would be nice to be able to synchronize Selecton search engines list with browser one. IMVHO that option might even be the default one...

It looks like possible at first glance:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/search

This feature used to work fine, but since the last updates it has been converting incorrectly. It might be due to API you are using exchangerate.host.

I also noticed that you have changed the minimum rate update interval (days) to 3 but mine was still 1 (the value before the change was applied). I changed it to 3 days but nothing changed. It might be also related to that.

Extension currently uses the same html for settings page and addressbar popup.
While being open as a popup, calling color picker to change any of the colors (for example, tooltip background color) automatically closes the popup, and therefore chosen value is not getting saved.

Issue occurs in Firefox 87.0

I'm changing from Vivaldi to Chrome and I want to export the settings of this extension but I don't see any option to do it.

Sometimes the menu in text fields is annoying and not necessary. I think it would be useful to be able to use a key (e.g. Ctrl) in combination with the left mouse button click to only activate this menu in text fields in that case.

Hi, can you add an option that causes the menu to open in the place of mouse pointer?

Could you add "shortcut keys" as well like for "Highlight" option and "copy page link to the selected text" option. it would be Amazing Thanks for this wonderful extension

Performing a search on a text containing '&' character shows the results only for the part before the &. For example if you try searching for "Asterix & Obelix" it shows only the results for "Asterix". The character should be probably replaced with %26.

Hey there! Loving the add-on and amazed at the speed you're developing it at.

Was wondering if it was possible to add Norwegian currency? NOK, the Norwegian Krone. You have both Swedish and Danish (currently using the Swedish one as an estimate) and feel it would be nice to have all three crowns.

Hi,

since the latest updates, changing options does not affect the extension in any way. I have turned off the translation button, but it is still there. I have changed the search engine, but it still uses Google, etc.

Any idea what can cause that?

Firefox 98.0.2
Selecton 3.5.8

I've found this problem in this page: https://www.sundhed.dk/borger/guides/find-behandler/?RegionId=1083&MunicipalityId=630&InformationsUnderkategori=Hudl%C3%A6ge%20(dermato-venerolog)&Informationskategori=Speciall%C3%A6ge

But it does show it if I select only 1 or 2 words:

Hi,

is it possible to make Selecton show up, when one double clicks a text paragraph? At the moment it disappears when I try to do it.

Below is what I mean:

Hi, I am not a programmer; I tried to edit code to open in background tab but failed.

Please make a option to open in background tab ( middle click is not suitable for me)
and minor suggestion

instead of paste clipboard item on text field, in windows, windowskey+v ( clipboard history window) to choose older clipboard item

Thanks for good utility.

Hey there! This is a great add-on, good job with that.

Only drawback I've experienced with is unit and time conversions. Currency conversions seems working fine. I used the site given below for testing different units and time zones and most of them failed.

Test site: https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2017/08/time-zone-unit-converters-highlight-opera-48-beta-release/

Also working time conversions displays results in 12Hour format and sometimes with colon(":") sign at the end of it. It is a bit confusing. Can you represent them in 24 Hour format or add am/pm indicator?

Thank you for the hard work.

10 AM EST is converted to 18:00, but should be 17:00 (advancing to EDT). Current time zone is GMT+3.

Google Chrome 108.0.5359.124
Selecton 3.6.9

Maybe the problem is with the latest Google Chrome update because until yesterday it was working fine for me.
I select a text, press any of the buttons I have for search, the search page opens but with the text to search empty.

For example, I have this search button https://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s&s=tt&ref_=nv_sr_sm but it opens https://www.imdb.com/find?q=&s=tt&ref_=nv_sr_sm

debugMode should equal to false in public releases due to countless amount of debug messages in console which are useless for average user and unbearably interferes for another JS developers while debugging

I also propose you to replace such constructions:

if (debugMode) {
  console.log('Detected selection tooltip on the website with following style:');
  console.log(elementStyle);
}

with

if (debugMode) {
  console.log('Detected selection tooltip on the website with following style:', elementStyle);
}

Thus you will reduce amount of debug messages without loss of their quality

Google Chrome 98.0.4758.80
Selecton 3.5.1

I have set 5 icons per row in settings:

But in the first row it always puts one more.

Hi. First of all, I just want to say this is an excellent extension. The best I've found so far for copying and searching selected text quickly. Unfortunately, it doesn't have a lot of downloads or reviews yet. I hope that will change soon. Maybe it needs some marketing.

Anyway, I just want to report an issue I faced.

Initially, I installed this extension directly from the files on this GitHub page. Then, I tweaked the extension settings based on my liking. Later, I found the extension on Google Chrome store. So, I exported the extension settings to a .json file and then installed the Chrome store version. But when I tried to import the settings, the Import button was grayed out and it couldn't import the settings from the .json file. So, I had to tweak the settings all over again manually. I think the Export/import settings has a bug. Please, look into it. Thank you.

Hello;

So far, really digging the add-on. I just have one issue. I have tried to manually change the order of the Search Buttons after entering those I typically like to have handy. I have exactly 20 search buttons.

I manually reordered them by subject and then alphabetically, e.g., search engines first, then online shopping sites, then various sites of different uses.

When I tested the add-on using the “Test the Settings” button at the bottom of the preferences page, I saw that the search buttons were still in the original random order when the drop-down menu appeared and hadn't changed at all. I tried this on different websites as well, with the same result.

I then reloaded the Preferences page for Selection, and all the changes I had made to re-order the Selection Buttons vanished and were replaced with the random original order. It was a rather tedious process to use the little arrows up and down to get the Selection Buttons in the order I wanted.

If this can be figured out, or if there is needed information that might help, please let me know. Also, not being technically oriented, I may need a little instruction on how to access whatever information you need.

One other thing occurred to me as I was re-ordering the Selection Buttons. Would it be possible to incorporate a numbering system as well along with the arrows so that instead of the arrows, we could just renumber their order by simply typing the order they should be in. For example, (1) Amazon, (2) Bing, (3) Google, etc.

Thanks so much.

2Data6

System Information

Firefox 111.0 (64 – Bit)
Mac (21.5-inch, Late 2012)
Processor 2.7 GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Startup Disk – External Samsung SSD
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M to 512 MB

First of all, I LOVE this adon and in my opinion it is the most rich-full of options and customization. Because I'm a noob I do not know what to put after ".com" for search engines. Please tell/explain me how that works. I noticed that the other ones have something at the end.
Thank you and have a nice day!!!

When using "Use vertical tooltip layout (experimental)", can the order inside be in the same direction, don't go up at one time and down at another time, it's so confusing.

Like the has been removed Context Search I used before, it can distinguish between search, dictionary, and translation.

Check the link with "Show on search button hover" to display the open link. Using "Show in main panel" will not show options for open link.

In addition, please add the currency of New Taiwan Dollar. Thank you.

I always get "No translation found" tooltip whenever I try to translate selected text (on button hover). I tried all 4 translation services. My user language is: "pl". Note that LMB on the button works fine (i.e. it redirects me to the right service with right translation)

In my case I sometimes need to search for the same word/phrase in several search engines. It would be very convenient to be able to do it in one go instead of having to select the text, press search, go back to the page, select again and press search again.