Chrome extension that forces new tabs to open in the background and adds custom search engines to the right-click context menu.
- Force Background Tabs — New tabs open behind your current tab instead of switching to them
- Context Menu Search — Highlight text, right-click, and search with any enabled engine. Results open in a background tab
- 29 Search Engine Presets — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, YouTube, Reddit, GitHub, Kagi, MDN, Hacker News, arXiv, npm, and more
- Search All Engines — One right-click item fans out across every enabled engine simultaneously
- Tab Placement Control — Open search results next to your current tab or at the end of the tab bar
- Custom Engine Editor — Add your own engines with any
%sURL template; remove them any time - Export / Import Config — Backup and restore your full settings as a JSON file
- Dark Settings Panel — Catppuccin Mocha themed popup with per-engine toggles, filter, and enable/disable all
- Zero Bloat — No permissions beyond what's needed, no tracking, no analytics
- Go to
chrome://extensions - Enable Developer mode
- Click Load unpacked and select this folder
- Click the toolbar icon to open settings
- Toggle Force Background Tabs and Context Menu Search independently
- Enable Search All Engines to add a single context menu item that opens all enabled engines at once
- Use the Tab Placement control to choose where new tabs appear
- Enable/disable individual search engines — only enabled engines appear in the right-click menu
- Use + Add custom engine to add any site with a
%ssearch URL template - Highlight any text on a page, right-click, and pick a search engine (or "Search all N engines")