Reviews for Disable Google Lens
Disable Google Lens by poeyfarre
53 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18089680, 2 years agoThis makes Google image search work the way it used to.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17462219, 2 years agoWorks perfectly. Now I can get the old search by image back.
- Rated 5 out of 5by kris_x, 2 years agoI hate Google Lens and love Google Image Search. Thanks for that extension! It works great.
Edit: it stopped working great when used with Search by Image on Google add-on (context menu button to search by image). Or maybe that add-on no longer works at all because of changes made by google? I don't know. - Rated 1 out of 5by CaptainFrydog, 2 years agoHow is this a thing for Firefox when, as far as I can see, Firefox does not have a "Search with Google Lens" option.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoboth google.com and images.google.com allow you to 'search with google lens' directly on those two sites -- this extension overrides the 'google lens' results provided by those sites and redirects the results back to how it used to be. it isn't meant to modify the behavior of anything in particular to firefox.
for example, without this extension, if you were to go to images.google.com and click the 'search by image' camera, and upload an image, it will show google lens results. however, if you install this extension, and do the same thing, it will show results like how it used to be (and not show google lens results) - Rated 3 out of 5by MajaLange, 2 years agoMy original (one-star) review, based on my own misperception of what the extension was designed to do (see edits below):
"It doesn't do what I personally wanted it to do. I found out how to disable Lens in Chrome, and it turned everything back to how it used to be before Lens, but this extension doesn't do that.
What I wanted was to be able, like I used to be, to right-click an image in Image Search Results and select "Search image with Google" (or whatever it is in English; I get it in Danish), which would open a collection of that exact image in all available sizes. After getting the add-on, I still can't do that. :/"
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EDIT after a helpful response from the developer:
"Thank you for the advice, developer - it worked! It takes one more click than it used to, but I can live with that. :) But couldn't you somehow incorporate that function into Disable Google Lens? Then I'd give it five stars. As it stands now, I don't really know how to rate it. I mean, I'd like to give YOU good feedback for helping me, but your add-on (or extension; I don't know the difference) didn't help me at all, and its name and description made me think that it would."
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EDIT after another response:
"Thank you for writing again. I understand pretty much nothing of your clarification, haha, but I've decided to change my rating to three stars as a compromise between the fact that I believe the extension probably does what you promise it does, because you seem like an upright and competent person, and the fact that I don't know from first-hand experience that it does (since, like I said, I don't even understand what its purpose is). I mean, I can't bring myself to leave my rating at one star when you've been so kind to me and even solved my problem! I actually FEEL like giving the extension five stars to show my appreciation of you as a person, but I don't think that would be fair to prospective users. Anyway, with your other ratings, I think you'll be okay. :) Again, thank you so much."Developer response
posted 2 years agotry this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_image/
after installing, go into the options and disable all search engines except for google. this will bring back the functionality i think you might be looking for
edit: no worries about the rating. the main purpose of this particular extension was to override the disable lens results -specifically- when accessed via 'search by image' on google's own website, rather than creating a context menu item (since there was already an extension that could do that). just wanted to clarify. - Rated 5 out of 5by Drace, 2 years agoVital to be able to actually use Google Images as they continue to push their godawful new Lens search.
[EDIT: This review was originally negative but I have corrected it to my new opinion. The developer pointed out that I had not updated the extension and that was why it was not working. I feel very silly now.]Developer response
posted 2 years agoare you using the latest version 0.1.2? it broke a couple of days ago and i had to rewrite it to make it work again, it is still working on my end at the moment so unfortunately it might be A/B testing - Rated 5 out of 5by lolzilla, 2 years agoThanks for fixing the Internet! Those idiots at Google don't know what they're doing.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Oakley Kim, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jenheadjen, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17900429, 2 years agoWorks as advertised. There's some css mess with navigation menu under search term input, it shows up vertically.
- Rated 4 out of 5by IQman, 2 years agoIt's always works but you need to enter google lens first so it's a bypasser not a redirector
- Rated 5 out of 5by w45ya, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by fixedrate144, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nauhan Allan, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by fm-usa, 2 years ago"GOOGLE DOES EVIL" . . .
DANG GOOGLE!!! Always installing something WE DON'T WANT and cannot remove it or reset the settings.
This Firefox extension works, THANK GOODNESS!!! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14878616, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dan, 2 years agoDoes not disable the google lens mouse-dragging feature when holding left mouse button on any google search result and moving the mouse.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Another user, 2 years agoA good start but only does half the job for me. If I click and drag an image the add-on works and blocks Lens. If I click and drag a link, Lens appears as Lens accepts links as well as images.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mortus, 2 years ago