Press Tab to quickly access the main search bar or search field of any website. No need to use your mouse! Autofocus available!

Latest Version

Version
0.4.0
Update
December 29, 2023
Size
989KiB
Developer
Category
Users
1,000+
Rating
4.90909 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Storage
Tabs
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Search Box Focus Extension

You hate taking your hand off the keyboard all the time only to access the search bar of the website you’re visiting?
You’d love to simply press Tab or a custom shortcut to focus the search field and start typing right away without ever using your mouse?
“Search Box Focus” solves exactly these problems. It also comes with an “Autofocus” feature which allows you to access the search bar automatically without pressing any shortcuts. Simply activate it for websites where you do a lot of searching like Amazon or online dictionaries. Whenever you load a website that has “Autofocus” enabled or when you switch to it from another tab, you’ll find that the cursor is already in the search bar ready for you to start typing.
The extension is completely free and open-source which means, no tracking or data collection. No ads!
After installation, make sure to reload/refresh all open tabs before using the extension!
Feel free to suggest new features, report bugs, and so on at:
https://github.com/gignupg/Search-Box-Focus

Credits:
“Search Box Focus” mainly uses the search box detection code of this Github repository:
https://github.com/CodeRevver/Focus-First-Input
The extension icon can be found at:
https://icons8.com/icon/48167/google-web-search
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Search Box Focus", "version": "0.4.0", "manifest_version": 3, "description": "Press Tab to quickly access the main search bar or search field of any website. No need to use your mouse! Autofocus available!", "icons": { "16": "icons/icons8-google-web-search-16.png", "48": "icons/icons8-google-web-search-full-48.png", "128": "icons/icons8-google-web-search-128.png" }, "permissions": ["storage", "tabs"], "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["http://*/*", "https://*/*"], "js": ["content.js"] } ], "action": { "default_icon": { "16": "icons/icons8-google-web-search-16.png", "48": "icons/icons8-google-web-search-48.png", "128": "icons/icons8-google-web-search-128.png" }, "default_popup": "popup.html" }, "background": { "service_worker": "background.js" }, "commands": { "focus-search-bar": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Alt+S" }, "description": "Search Box Focus" } }, "content_security_policy": { "script-src": "self", "object-src": "self" }, "web_accessible_resources": [ { "resources": ["/images/icon.png"], "matches": [""] } ]}
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User reviews

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Auditormadness9 (ID: 000000712c6205b6) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 02/11/2023 Awesome but please make the custom shortcuts be set in your own extension's environment because Chrome shortcut system doesn't allow many keys, and necessarily asks for Ctrl or Alt :/

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Kevin (ID: 0000002d5cee9143) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/07/2023 dats AWESOME!!!

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Dylan Julian (ID: 000000b37305487c) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 08/15/2022 Thank you, this was exactly what I was looking for. This was so specific, I feared it wouldn't exist but it does. So far so good, I still have to test it on more websites!

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Saiha Homura (ID: 000000740709144e) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/29/2022 Works well. Thank you.

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Luis_AM (ID: 00000096347093dc) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/29/2021 Muchas gracias, excelente para los que no quieren usar el mouse a cada rato.