Reviews for Redirector
Redirector by Einar Egilsson
337 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12337131, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by IAO, 7 years agoWorks every time. Saves a lot of my time and effort. Thanks for offering this powerful and handy tool.
No need to block site anymore, just forward it! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12343667, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Llewen, 7 years agoIt works, but it doesn't rewrite link urls. You either have to open them in a new tab, or copy and paste the url into the address bar. At least that's how it worked on the broken website I was trying to fix.
I see my issue is discussed below. Added two stars... - Rated 5 out of 5by CMTSIJ, 7 years agoI use it to redirect https://www.facebook.com/ to https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr.
Everything works perfect.
Thank you. Developer response
posted 7 years agoYeah, sorry about that. Debug feature that got left in. Will remove in next version.- Rated 5 out of 5by MS-DOS, 7 years agoWorks fine, but doesn't redirect some links at all until the page loaded from that not-redirected link is manually refreshed.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoI'm kind of at the mercy of the webRequest API that Firefox provides there. I redirect every request they pass to me, but don't really know why they wouldn't pass the requests you're mentioning to the extension. - Rated 5 out of 5by Jacob Mischka, 7 years agoNot sure why it seems like so many people are complaining.
Would be great if there were a way to automatically sync the configurations between firefox installs, but import/export works fine.
Thanks!Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks, I'm glad you like the extension. Sync would be cool, but I'm not really working much on this anymore. Would welcome contributions from others though. - Rated 5 out of 5by Mackun, 7 years agoEasy to configure, also able to export configurations
And it's already compatible with firefox 57+ since last year
What else would you want? - Rated 1 out of 5by bilmand , 7 years agoit's just way easier to just click "Allow" every time it comes up, than trying to figure out how this POS works.
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posted 7 years agoIt works like it should, sorry you couldn't find a way to make it work for you. - Rated 5 out of 5by bugfix2, 8 years agoI've planned to use this add-on as privacy tool, for discarding tracking tokens (like google "utm_source") from URL and bypassing "away scripts" (that counts what external URL user clicked).
Unfortunately, this add-on first visits unmodified address, and only if original page loaded, redirects to another page).
Thus, it's useless for privacy purpose.
P.S. Updated FF to 55.0.3, issue is gone.Developer response
posted 8 years agoNormally it doesn't send a request to the original address. However, since FF 52 there' this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345893 which always sends a request to the original url first. It's fixed and should be released in Firefox 55 apparently. - Rated 4 out of 5by hexalm, 8 years agoJust installed, love the regex option, makes it easy to define rules (once you've tackled learning regex - try regexr.com to test and learn, helped me tons). Will update after some actual use. :)
Developer response
posted 8 years agoGlad you like it. I'll try to support Android better some day when I have an Android device. Also, pull requests are welcome if someone else wants to implement it. - Rated 5 out of 5by ffuser, 8 years agoIt works great! If you could just add support for firefox android, that would make it perfect. Currently I can't find any way to enter rules on Android. Thanks :)
Or make the code open source, so others can do it. I can't access the code provided in the link. It says access denied.Developer response
posted 8 years agoThe code is at https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector , pull requests are welcome :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13008144, 8 years agoI could redirect youtube's URL from default to /embed/videoid for automatic full page display
- Rated 5 out of 5by cloudccc, 8 years agoi want to import rules from online. can you add this feature?
Developer response
posted 8 years agoI'm not really adding new features to this addon anymore, it's just in maintenance mode. - Rated 4 out of 5by deviant2, 8 years agowhen :
rightclick -> save link as
the URL/address still like that ...
andOR something like : redirector -> then send to download manager
i do really need this ... so i use : rightclick -> save link as
but it doesnt worked ...
its only worked when :
rightclick -> open new tab/window - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12793683, 8 years agoThis works well on Firefox but what about androids and Iphones
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posted 8 years agoI just haven't tested it. I should probably mark it as not supported there until I can do that. - Rated 1 out of 5by chris p, 8 years agoNo way to interface with the add-on. No menu, no button. Compatible with ff android? Yea right! Same story with %90 of them on AMO. Show up as compatible when it is not.
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posted 8 years agoYou're right, I should probably remove the "Compatible with Firefox Android" thing. I just thought that WebExtensions addons should work anywhere. - Rated 3 out of 5by Artem S. Tashkinov, 8 years agoWhy does this add-on require an example for each URL? Makes no sense to me.
Also I would love to import and export to CSV files because generating JSON out of my own rules is a Herculian task.
Also, please, change the view to table or something like that:
COLUMN 1: Name (optional)
COLUMN 2: Rule
COLUMN 3: Replace
COLUMN 4: Extra options
COLUMN 5: Checkbox (enabled)Developer response
posted 8 years agoExample Url is required because it forces people to test their redirects before sending me emails complaining about something not working. It seriously reduces my email a lot :)
I have no plans to add any more features to this addon, or do any major changes to it. It's basically just in maintenance mode now.