Reviews for Google Search Fixer
Google Search Fixer by Thomas Wisniewski, Rob W
Response by Thomas Wisniewski
Developer response
posted 8 years agoThanks for letting me know about this other addon! Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but based on their source code, the differences are minor, but enough that I feel this is a worthwhile alternative:
- This addon specifically only overrides Google Search pages, not all Google apps/subdomains like maps (since they don't all need this treatment like Search does).
- This addon uses a tablet user-agent string if you're using Firefox on a tablet, rather than just always spoofing a phone user-agent string.
- This addon adds "FxQuantum/version" to the user-agent string it uses, so if anyone is paying attention they will know that you're not actually using Chrome (which may not achieve anything, but I still feel it's worth doing so).
- This addon keeps the major Chrome version number it uses equal to your running Firefox version plus 4, so the addon may not require as many updates (it should effectively always present itself like the latest version of Mobile Chrome).
- This addon overrides the user-agent string in not just the HTTP headers Google Search sees, but also its Javascripts' navigator.userAgent value. This may not make much of a difference, but I've seen instances in Google code in my day-job where they read both, so I kept it thorough.
- This addon specifically only overrides Google Search pages, not all Google apps/subdomains like maps (since they don't all need this treatment like Search does).
- This addon uses a tablet user-agent string if you're using Firefox on a tablet, rather than just always spoofing a phone user-agent string.
- This addon adds "FxQuantum/version" to the user-agent string it uses, so if anyone is paying attention they will know that you're not actually using Chrome (which may not achieve anything, but I still feel it's worth doing so).
- This addon keeps the major Chrome version number it uses equal to your running Firefox version plus 4, so the addon may not require as many updates (it should effectively always present itself like the latest version of Mobile Chrome).
- This addon overrides the user-agent string in not just the HTTP headers Google Search sees, but also its Javascripts' navigator.userAgent value. This may not make much of a difference, but I've seen instances in Google code in my day-job where they read both, so I kept it thorough.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by trav1295, 12 days agoThis add-on doesn't seem needed anymore. Got an Android after a couple years on iPhone and was very happy to use the actual Firefox (not some safari-clone) and Google works great without this add-on which really surprised me. But rating 5-stars as this used to be crucial
- Rated 5 out of 5by alen, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by revwillie56, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14056242, 2 months agoDieses Produkt ist sehr gut und erhält von mir 5 ***** STERNE PS: Ich würde mich freuen, wenn noch mehr Leute in deutscher Sprache hier eine Bewertung abgeben würden. Vielen Dank
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19449439, 2 months ago
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Prince Antwi, 3 months ago
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- Rated 1 out of 5by knight55, 3 months agoDoesn't work properly on firefox mobile. Shows local language results still!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Cris., 4 months ago
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