Firefox addon for searching with different search engines

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I want to be able to right click on the selected text and, instead of Search Google for [whatever is selected], I want to have a submenu that allows me to choose the search engine I want. The list of search engines has to be the exact list of search engines I have. I know there is such an add-on, because I've used something like this in the past, only I can't remember its name.

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Context Search

Search selected text using your preferred search engines. Right-click or Shift-click on selected text to respectively launch the context menu or the grid of icons. You can also perform searches using keywords in the url address bar.

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The following addons appear to have since been deleted.

SearchWith (no longer avaliable)

SearchWith extension allows you to search selected with various search services. It adds a "Search With" sub menu on the context menu (right-click menu) with a configurable list of search services that can be used to search the highlighted text.

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SmartSearch (no longer avaliable)

Right-click on a word or group of selected words, and from the popup menu, select a website. SmartSearch will perform a search as though you had gone to that website and entered the selected words. You may add any website to the menu by visiting that site, right-clicking on its search field, selecting "Add a Keyword for this Search..." and picking a name and keyword.

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