Reviews for Swift Selection Search
Swift Selection Search by Daniel Lobo
659 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gammadeus, 7 years agoA big thanks for this addon !
I customized a little bit (by the fact that is highly customizable) to my taste, therefore I've already had an English-->Hungarian and also a Hungarian-->Englis dictionary on the popup menu and context menu with an external searching engine and icon. :-)
It is one of the most useful and great web extension till I tried to use in the "Quantum-era" (on Linux Mint Debian Edition with Xfce deskt. envir.).
Thank you again and again. ;-)
This great job (end the effort of the author behind that addon) deserves this 5 stars I gave.
;-)
I shall recommend this web extension to all of my friends. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13492156, 7 years agoHey man thanx for responding to my earlier review, I didnt know how to reply to you. I have ublock origin and had fanboy enabled it. so i disabled it and its still not showing up in SSS
Developer response
posted 7 years agoNo problem! I still got the notification for this update. :)
Did you try adding the YouTube icon again? (try deleting a letter from the "icon url" and adding it back, for example) If the list was blocking it, it needs to retry to cache it and unfortunately SSS won't do that on its own.
If this still doesn't help, try creating another YouTube search engine with everything the same. If this still doesn't help, see if disabling uBlock Origin and doing the above again helps. If it does then you might have another list blocking the icon. :)
Cheers! - Rated 4 out of 5by Ree, 7 years agoI like it, but I would LOVE it if it could work like the context search addon for FF <56. You only had to select some text, right click and there in the menu you got a few icons to click on. With this addon the search engines are behind a menu.
Daniel plessDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoHey there! Thanks for the review! :)
Do you mean making the search engines appear outside the "Search for (...)" sub menu? I tried to install Context Search on an older Firefox to see what it did exactly but it placed all engines inside a sub menu too, so I was a bit confused. :)
If it's that, I'm afraid I can't do it in WebExtensions (the only way to create extensions after Firefox 57). Sorry! Quoting Mozilla, "If you have created more than one context menu item or more than one tools menu item, then the items will be placed in a submenu." There doesn't seem to be a way around this.
Cheers!
Daniel Developer response
posted 7 years agoHahaha it's not every day that my addon is called GOD! ;) Thanks for the review!- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13483553, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by yazidE, 7 years agogenius indisponsable and replace some addon like fastestsearch
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13476599, 7 years agoVery nice! That's exactly what I wanted, thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13475261, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13466919, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13466644, 7 years agoFinally found replacement for Clickless Menu! Spent awhile Googling before stumbled across this. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Remy.H, 7 years agoFinally I find the extension I was dreaming to have. This extension is a must have for me and as firefox user I was using chrome ONLY because there was a similar extension that I could not find for firefox. You can easily customize the add-on and make your own search engines.
EX: add this in the addon settings: https://translate.google.com/?source=gtx_c#auto/en/{searchTerms} and now you can select any text and directly get a translation on google translate. I have added my favorite dictionaries like Larousse, Merriam-Webster etc.. and I have a translation with one click.
Million Thanks for the excellent job. - Rated 5 out of 5by Hegel, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by skace marko, 7 years agoJust what I was searching for ;)
I went back to FF52 ESR, because in quantum doesnt work my favorite auto search addon, but I found a great replacment.
Thank you very much mr. dev. - Rated 5 out of 5by t7yang, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mattwmaster58, 7 years agoVery useful, highly configurable and options all are useful.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Serhii, 7 years agothe best extension! As a search engine I added Google Translate link https://translate.google.com/?sl=da#auto/en/{searchTerms} , so i can translate now the selected text too!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Homme-Nuage, 7 years agoI think I found a nice replacement for Context Search (the one by Ben Basson) and Drag & Drop Zones (which is broken).
It's a very good thing to be able to import engines from the search.json file.
Some of my engines were imported twice, because of the multiple links that exist in some files, but I must clarify that I created custom search engines with XML files, in an amateur way (imitating other search engines) and maybe I didn't do too well. Edit : it is now fixed.
The open as link button doesn't work but I expect it will be fixed soon enough. Edit : it actually worked for single-word and hyphened-word searches but not for a text with spaces or words separated by colons. The dev allowed the former with their last update but the later is forbidden by Mozilla.
Would it be possible to save the preferences ?
Thanks for your work, it is well thought out and deserves a better place on this website.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHey there, thanks for the review! :) I'm strongly inclined to believe that your duplicate imported engines were caused by a bug that I fixed in 3.6.0. Hopefully!
Could you please tell me more about the "open as link" icon not working? (or report the problem to https://github.com/CanisLupus/swift-selection-search/issues) It seems to be working for me, but sometimes the problem is hard to reproduce. An example would help a lot!
Exporting the preferences or even syncing with Firefox Sync is in my plans. ;) - Rated 5 out of 5by cz104th, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Orangutan, 7 years agoVery customizable. Is the only add-on of its kind that can directly import from search.json.mozlz4 saving you a lot of time. Developer is very nice and personable too :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by manuxuser, 7 years agoI used to work with Opera because it get this ability to use this overlay functionnality, which very usefull with netbook.
Now, it totally powerfull in Firefox, I think it had to be integrated out of the box in FF. Bravisssssssiiiimmmmooooo and thank you ! - Rated 5 out of 5by graycatgrayhat, 7 years ago