Is Shortcut keys for selection search safe?

Clean risk

Searches selected text with a keyboard shortcut in Chrome.

This extension opens search results for highlighted text when you press configurable shortcut keys. Alt+1 opens the result in a foreground tab, and Alt+Shift+1 opens it in a background tab; shortcuts can be changed at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. It also supports searching selected text in Chrome’s default PDF viewer, according to the description.

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Shortcut keys for selection search contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.

  • Googlewidely used

    Shortcut keys for selection search sends data to Google. Named as a recipient by 195 other extensions we have analyzed.

Updated 15 October 2026emceciddhgnjkmjmpjoahmdhibmifohp