diff --git a/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/search.test.ts b/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/search.test.ts
index 107a6ec9ef..6efcedd8ef 100644
--- a/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/search.test.ts
+++ b/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/search.test.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import { NightwatchBrowser } from 'nightwatch'
 import init from '../helpers/init'
 
 module.exports = {
-    '@disabled': true,
     before: function (browser: NightwatchBrowser, done: VoidFunction) {
         init(browser, done, 'http://127.0.0.1:8080', true)
     },
diff --git a/apps/remix-ide/src/app.js b/apps/remix-ide/src/app.js
index 8b9197f5d5..e268ef8dcd 100644
--- a/apps/remix-ide/src/app.js
+++ b/apps/remix-ide/src/app.js
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ const isElectron = require('is-electron')
 const remixLib = require('@remix-project/remix-lib')
 
 import { QueryParams } from '@remix-project/remix-lib'
+import { SearchPlugin } from './app/tabs/search'
 
 const Storage = remixLib.Storage
 const RemixDProvider = require('./app/files/remixDProvider')
@@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ class AppComponent {
     const storagePlugin = new StoragePlugin()
 
     //----- search
-    // const search = new SearchPlugin()
+    const search = new SearchPlugin()
 
     // ----------------- import content service ------------------------
     const contentImport = new CompilerImports()
@@ -233,6 +234,7 @@ class AppComponent {
       hardhatProvider,
       ganacheProvider,
       this.walkthroughService,
+      search
     ])
 
     // LAYOUT & SYSTEM VIEWS
@@ -350,7 +352,7 @@ class AppComponent {
     await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['settings', 'config'])
     await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['hiddenPanel', 'pluginManager', 'contextualListener', 'terminal', 'blockchain', 'fetchAndCompile', 'contentImport', 'gistHandler'])
     await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['settings'])
-    await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['walkthrough','storage', 'intelligentScriptExecutor'])
+    await this.appManager.activatePlugin(['walkthrough','storage', 'search','intelligentScriptExecutor'])
 
     this.appManager.on(
       'filePanel',
diff --git a/apps/remix-ide/src/remixAppManager.js b/apps/remix-ide/src/remixAppManager.js
index 0313d1baaa..8a75a094f9 100644
--- a/apps/remix-ide/src/remixAppManager.js
+++ b/apps/remix-ide/src/remixAppManager.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ const requiredModules = [ // services + layout views + system views
   'manager', 'config', 'compilerArtefacts', 'compilerMetadata', 'contextualListener', 'editor', 'offsetToLineColumnConverter', 'network', 'theme',
   'fileManager', 'contentImport', 'blockchain', 'web3Provider', 'scriptRunner', 'fetchAndCompile', 'mainPanel', 'hiddenPanel', 'sidePanel', 'menuicons',
   'filePanel', 'terminal', 'settings', 'pluginManager', 'tabs', 'udapp', 'dGitProvider', 'solidity-logic', 'gistHandler', 'layout',
-  'notification', 'permissionhandler', 'walkthrough', 'storage', 'restorebackupzip', 'link-libraries', 'deploy-libraries', 'hardhat-provider', 'intelligentScriptExecutor']
+  'notification', 'permissionhandler', 'walkthrough', 'storage', 'restorebackupzip', 'link-libraries', 'deploy-libraries', 'hardhat-provider', 'intelligentScriptExecutor', 'search']
 
 const dependentModules = ['git', 'hardhat', 'truffle', 'slither'] // module which shouldn't be manually activated (e.g git is activated by remixd)