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CanisLupus / swift-selection-search

Swift Selection Search (SSS) is a simple Firefox add-on that lets you quickly search for some text in a page using your favorite search engines.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/swift-selection-search/
MIT License
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[question] Is it possible to have several simultaneous searches? #247

Closed rado84-github closed 2 years ago

rado84-github commented 2 years ago

I can see that development is on leave, so my question is about the current version of SSS, which is one my most favorite extensions. Currently a search can be done only for a single site. But I wonder - can I have simultaneous searches with the same terms for all of them? To explain it better, it could be something along the line of "{searchTerms} selection ==> site1|site2|site3|site4|site5. Basically such a search would send {searchTerms} to all the 5 sites simultaneously and open all of the 5 different tabs for each.

Can such a search be done?

CanisLupus commented 2 years ago

Hi Ivo! If I got this right, yes you can. :) In the engines list you have this button to "Add group":

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If you create a group, it behaves (as far as it can) as a single search engine that searches using all the engines in the group simultaneously. This way you can keep your single engines as normal but also have groups for those special searches (and you can disable showing any single engine using the visibility checkboxes on the left if you JUST want to use it in groups).

Does this help?

Cheers! Daniel

rado84-github commented 2 years ago

Yup, that's exactly what I needed. Thanks! :D