Reviews for Redirector
Redirector by Einar Egilsson
24 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by PhoenixTetra, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17728939, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by erik1984, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Rick-0, 2 years agoThis works very well, but you DO have to look for how to use regular expressions without direct links to instructions.
The author/maintainer seems to have passed away sometime between 12/2021 and 9/2022, so unless/until someone else takes over, I'd say no more updates. - Rated 4 out of 5by Ivan, 2 years agoDark theme makes redirect statuses confusing. Brain expects that brightened sections are enabled and darkened are disabled, in actuality it's text colors that show that.
- Rated 4 out of 5by juan riccio, 2 years agoTHANKS for this extension! I use to avoid the "new" Reddit and its click traps - I much prefer the old.reddit site.
The extension works, but it's a little difficult to use - which is all right: given the power it gives us, it's only normal we have to learn a bit about wildcards or regexps.
BUT I have a request: a link to the HELP page in the ADD REDIRECT page. It's unconvenient to have to close the editing tab just to look at help for syntax etc. Just my 2 cents. - Rated 4 out of 5by pOison.by, 3 years agoЗаменяет url только в адресной стране, если будет встречаться в коде страницы, замены не будет!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Craig, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by circcc, 4 years agobug:
"Enable notification" setting is not remembered when I restart Firefox. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14436062, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Angel Hdz, 6 years agoI tried every possible regex combination. No redirects. Firefox Quantum. Restarted firefox same issue.
Update: I was using the regex plus sign "+" of "matches preceding pattern element 1 or more times", so when I was about to give up, decided trying the asterisk "*" "matches preceding pattern element 0 or more times" and it worked right away.
I wonder why the plus sign doesn't work. - Rated 4 out of 5by Azazello, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13898859, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Adrian, 6 years agoGreat extension, i used it to redirect www.reddit.com into i.reddit.com (Reddit is blocked on my country). The only minor problem for this extension is the logo colour, it has exactly the same colour as the new "Quantum" dark theme. Would be nice if you could add an outline on the logo :)
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13486413, 6 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 4 out of 5by hexalm, 7 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 7 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 4 out of 5by deviant2, 7 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, 7 years agoThis works well on Firefox but what about androids and Iphones
Developer response
posted 7 years agoI just haven't tested it. I should probably mark it as not supported there until I can do that. - Rated 4 out of 5by End User, 7 years agoDoes not work correctly with nested brackets.
For example, if you want to eradicate youtube playlists, you'd better locate &list parameter and rebuild the URL without it.
Rather than identifying all parameters for careful string composition.
E.g.
(https?://)?(www\.)?youtube\.com/(watch\?)?((&?v=[^&]*)|(([&#]t=([\d]*h)?)([\d]*m)?([\d]*s?))|(&?index=[\d]*)|(&?list=[^&]*))*
has nested parentheses which are not parsed correctly by this extension.
I'd propose to use
(https?://)(www\.)youtube.com/watch\?(.*)(&?list=[^&]*)(.*)
with this replacement
$1$2youtube.com/watch?$3$5
This way parameter &index= will remain, but won't have any effect.
And the result will be removal of &list parameter which I am talking about. - Rated 4 out of 5by Giovanni, 8 years agogreat add-on, easy and useful. but it lacks the support for redirecting to (file:///) URI on local machine.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoThanks. The API I use for redirecting doesn't allow file:/// redirects, so that feature will probably never be in this extension. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5974346, 8 years agoUsed it to force firefox to use port 8080 instead of 80 for a specific site. At first it seemed to work alright, but then I saw that when submitting form data it doesn't perform the redirect.
- Rated 4 out of 5by SBSW.VMtOpMrz3O9wH9D4LfkVXe-BZtw.LKrCgyBULWCG1uhlB, 8 years agoIt does not work in the last days on Firefox 48 + Redirector 3.1.0.
Not saved settings redirects.