Reviews for ContextSearch web-ext
ContextSearch web-ext by Mike B
Response by Mike B
Developer response
posted 7 years agoYou'll have to whitelist the native app with your antivirus software. The app is not digitally signed because it costs money to license a signature, sometimes quite a bit depending on the license length and the company used. The code is available to inspect and build yourself, or you can use the Manual method of importing your search engines which doesn't require the native app.
196 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Piper, 5 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gemini62167, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rage, 2 months agoDear Author, I'm Japanese, so please excuse my poor English.
If the version is v1.47.1 or later, Japanese character codes such as "shift_jis" and "euc_jp" cannot be used because they garble the text.
There seems to be a problem with sending from a Unicode site to a JIS site. It seems that the text is sent as utf_8 without being converted.
I rolled back to v1.46.26 and there are no problems.
(The same situation occurs with Chrome.)
PS: I don't have a Github account, so I reported this problem here. - Rated 5 out of 5by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HypnotizedNarcissist, 2 months agothe best from the best
my respect mike
easy, fast, great lay-out, top add-on
thank you very much
btw. and always good updates - Rated 5 out of 5by Кадочников Сергей, 3 months agoПрекрасное расширение, удобное, легко настраиваемое под себя.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by EarOfWheat, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by darlington95, 6 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Dideldum, 6 months agoDefinitely the Best Search-addon. Nearly perfect.
Unfortunately the sidebar feature is not working (Firefox & Chromium).. - Rated 5 out of 5by Seän D. Shepherd, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ninetynine, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dom0909, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10244801, 9 months agoDitched my two faithful companions Context Search Origin and Swift Selection Search when I found this babe.
- Rated 5 out of 5by biggsley, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Saud, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by LawrenceSan, a year agoI've used many, many different extensions in several different browsers over many years. (I'm an experienced web developer, starting when the web was first invented, and can code several different web languages -- in other words, I'm not a newbie.)
ContextSearch web-ext has the most complicated, buggy preferences interface I've ever seen in a browser extension. I have it running in both Firefox and Chrome, and when it works it's great -- but trying to customize it, add search engines, etc. is a nightmare.
Currently one of the engines in my ContextSearch list is "Google Maps". It works fine in Firefox, but doesn't work at all in Chrome, just leads to a blank page. So I tried exporting it from Firefox into Chrome. Forget it! The export/import features in the extension's customization interface appears to just export the URL for the icon, not for the search engine itself? And some of the gazillion preferences-interface elements for this extension, in both browsers, appear as just solid gray blocks -- regardless of what theme I use, or whether Dark Reader is on or off, or what other interface options I choose for ContextSearch itself. Of the options (including links) that I can see clearly, most of them don't do anything like what their name implies or what I'd expect them to do.
I haven't given up on it because, for the engines I finally get working, it's very useful. But I spend more time wrestling with this interface than with all my other (many) installed extensions put together! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5599219, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12680106, a year ago
Developer response
posted 2 years ago(edit) That bug has been found and will be fixed in the next release
The save bug is known and may have been addressed in a recent version. I know it's been a persistent annoyance.
As for the transparency, you should be able to set that yourself using CS Options -> General -> User Styles. Use CSS selectors to apply opacity levels to the menu. If you need help, open an issue at the github site.- Rated 1 out of 5by mimigu, 2 years agoVersions after May no longer work. I would like to downgrade to an earlier version but can't find it.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoYou can find older versions here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/contextsearch-web-ext/versions/
But depending on what when wrong, that may not fix your problems. If you could elaborate on the issue, either here or at the support site, I'd be happy to go over some troubleshooting with you. https://github.com/ssborbis/ContextSearch-web-ext - Rated 5 out of 5by bezuma, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alwaysliumx, 2 years ago