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When one has more than three Services in a context menu, what occurs is that they are automatically kept within a "Services" sub-menu. The user then must hover over this sub-menu before they may click on the desired Service title.
Is it possible to show all 4 Service titles in the context menu?
My own experience (on 10.9) is that the service uses the default search engine selected for the default browser, so right now my own "Search with…" says "Search DuckDuckGo for…" and will open in Firefox.
This doesn't answer your other questions, but it may mean you don't need to bother. I hope it helps. I've an old system running 10.6 so I'll give that a look when I get a chance and see if the same can be done there.
I had a similar issue and the 'Fetching...' was taking many seconds. I just reset Launch Services with the following command:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -seed -r -f -v -domain local -domain user -domain system
Best Answer
To show all Services on the Context Menu in Finder, do the following.
In Terminal, use the following commands:
Now all applicable Services in Finder's Context Menu should appear without being in a Services Sub Menu.
To revert to default behavior, use the following commands in Terminal:
Note: I've only tested this in OS X 10.8.5 and OS X 10.11.6 and it worked in both, so I'd assume it should work in the OS X versions in between. I've also tested this it in macOS 10.12.2 and it works, so I'd assume other versions of macOS 10.12.x it should work.
Update Note: This should also have an affect on other Context Menus in Applications other then Finder. However, applications that are running at the time this change is made must be restarted for this to take effect. After this change has been made, applications opened afterwards will be affected immediately. You can also just logout/login for the change to take effect globally, all at once.