BackgroundSearch

Chrome extension that forces new tabs to open in the background and adds custom search engines to the right-click context menu.

Features

• 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 %s URL 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

Install

1. Go to chrome://extensions
2. Enable Developer mode
3. Click Load unpacked and select this folder

Usage

• 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 %s search URL template
• Highlight any text on a page, right-click, and pick a search engine (or "Search all N engines")