‘Search Google for’ missing from the Right-Click menu in Chrome?

Google has removed Search Option from right-click menu in Chrome. ‘Search Google for’ (if you’ve set Google as default search engine) appears on the context menu of highlighted text, you can find this change in latest canary and dev. builds. We don’t know whether Chromium team has done this intentionally or it could be a bug? If you’re using developer or Canary as default browser, you can add it by installing Context Menu Search extension from the Chrome Web Store. 

no search Google for command on right click menu thumb Search Google for missing from the Right Click menu in Chrome?

After installing this extension, visit its options page and select ‘Google’ under Web Search and click on ‘Add selected options’ at the bottom. After that, Context Menu Search lets you search for text you want to find in from any one of the search engines like Bing, Bing Images, IMDB, Wikipedia, Yahoo and Google.

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Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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