Searcher X is a Chrome Manifest V3 extension built for fast multi-platform search directly from the app.
Instead of opening tabs and typing each platform one by one, you enter a query once and run it across selected engines in one click.
- One-click multi-platform search directly from the app
- Run one query across selected engines without tab-by-tab manual typing
- Search with Google mode:
- combines your query with selected exact-match keywords
- supports multi-tab and one-tab methods
- Supports AI-first and traditional web search engines
- Editable engine names and section headers
- Enable/disable engines with modern toggles
- Built-in categories: AI, Web, Tech, Shopping, News, Research, Social, Productivity, Utilities
- Optional standalone Searcher X window from toolbar icon
- Quick access to Chrome tab keyboard shortcuts from Settings
- Right-click text search in Chrome (included as secondary workflow)
On fresh install/reset, the popup starts with 6 categories (3 engines each):
- Row 1:
AI(ChatGPT, Perplexity, Exa),Social Media(YouTube, Reddit, Twitter/X),Utilities(Wikipedia, Google Maps, Grokopedia) - Row 2:
Productivity(Gmail, Google Drive, Notion),Tech(GitHub, Stack Overflow, CodePen),Web(Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo)
By default, only AI, Social Media, and Utilities engines are enabled.
background/service worker, routing, context menus, commands, storagecontent/in-page quick action menuui/app UI HTML/CSS/JSshared/engine registry and settings sanitization
- Open
chrome://extensions - Enable Developer mode
- Click Load unpacked
- Select this folder:
/Users/slm/my-portfolio/search-x
- Reload the extension after source changes
- Chrome shortcut bindings are managed by Chrome itself at
chrome://extensions/shortcuts. - Context menu labels follow current saved engine names.
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0-or-later).
See LICENSE for details.