Reviews for Swift Selection Search
Swift Selection Search by Daniel Lobo
659 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by graycatgrayhat, 7 years agoWonderful replacement to other context search extensions, plus has extra options to fine tune the menu and icons.
- Rated 5 out of 5by tvfj, 7 years agoEssentially two addons in one and HIGHLY customizable.
If you don't like the popup, you can just use it in the context menu. It also lets you define how new tabs are opened (load in current tab, open in new tab, open in tab next to this one, open in a new tab without switching to it...), and even define a middle-click setting as well.
Protip: To import your browser search engines, you can press Shift+F2 to bring up the GCLI, and use the command "folder openprofile", then get the file it mentions. No need to hunt, and if you have multiple profiles no need to try and figure out which one is your actual one.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for your review. :) I'm glad you like it! I also want to add that I didn't know about that command nor the shortcut, so I should thank you again for that tip. ;) Cheers! - Rated 1 out of 5by meg, 7 years agoWhen I first installed this the popup menu whenever I selected something was a surprise, but once I got used to it I decided it was really helpful. Now it's gone.
This is probably related to the "web extension" change discussed on the add-on page but I don't really understand how that works, and even though there's a statement there saying "Your settings from previous versions are incompatible. You'll have to customize what you need again. :( " I see no instructions for how to do that, not there and not on the GitHub page. I switched to this after the context-menu search add-on I had stopped working; I guess it's time to find another one of those.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi Meg! Sorry for the lack of instructions. I realize I might not have done well in that regard. You're right, the change to WebExtensions made it harder to access the search engines that you have in Firefox, so it's not automatic anymore and, therefore, definitely not as intuitive (I wish it was!).
I'll make a note to improve this in the future. I'll also try to explain now. :)
I couldn't understand if the popup was not appearing at all for you now, or if the problem was only that only a few engines appear now. For the second case:
If you go to the add-ons page that has your Firefox extensions (Ctrl+Shift+A is the easy way to go there) and then open Swift Selection Search (SSS) you will be in the "options" page. You should see a lot of options below the add-on description, but the most important ones are at the top under "Search engines": the table of search engines and a button labeled [Select "search.json.mozlz4"] below it. That button lets you give SSS the file that contains the search engines present in Firefox itself. You have a few instructions to the right of the button on where to find this file. After that you should have your engines back, hopefully.
If you have trouble with anything, you can contact me at daniel.rb.lobo+sss@gmail.com and I'll try to help. :)
Regards,
Daniel - Rated 5 out of 5by Orodeous, 7 years agoit is great but when I add a search engine I can not give its favicon, it adds google favicon itself
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHey! Thank you for the review. :) After adding a new search engine you should be able to change the icon URL in its rightmost text field (the column named "Icon link"). By default it is "https://www.google.com/favicon.ico" but you can change it. Just to be clear, using images from your computer is not supported; only URLs. I hope that's alright!
Cheers!
Daniel - Rated 5 out of 5by ruanri, 7 years agoPlease add the synchronization feature for search engines, settings, popup menu style. Thank you.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHey, thank you for the review! :) Sync is not implemented yet, but I stopped by to say that it (and possibly "export to file") is in my plans. ;) - Rated 5 out of 5by brisingr, 7 years agoThank you for support Webextension. Looking for this addon for a long time.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6999874, 7 years agoThanks for this important work which also included a better option panel. You still managed to easily reuse FF's search engines. The elements are now individualized, which opens up new perspectives for future development:
1-Sizing icons according to their importance
2-Adding additional layers to icons such as the arrow at the bottom left of Windows shortcut to differentiate identical elements: between wikipedia of different languages, we would annotate their language code for example.
Other suggestions:
3-The right mouse button should be reactive also in the bubble
4-The bubble should be formatted freely in css.
5- A timer to automatically clears the bubble
About the right-button menu:
6-The three mouse buttons should be as reactives as in the bubble.
7-Should be inspired by the Quick Context Search add-on