Reviews for Swift Selection Search
Swift Selection Search by Daniel Lobo
50 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15550222, 4 years agoAwesome tool. Set up 8 search options but did not export created list. Currently looking for a place to configure my settings and updates and add new search engines. If someone knows how to that - let me know.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHey, thanks for the review. :)
I'm not sure what you mean! Were you not able to create new engines in the addon Options menu? Or are you looking for something like a website where people can share search engines for SSS? (that doesn't exist, as far as I'm aware)
Please reply to daniel.rb.lobo+sss@gmail.com, since I may not see an update here in the reviews.
Cheers!
Daniel - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15145534, 5 years agocould you make an option/shortcut to open selected text in terminal (/usr/bin/gnome-terminal)?
- Rated 4 out of 5by Aquila, 5 years agoExpansion can be and good, BUT it is necessary to add search plug-ins manually, it is a lot of unnecessary settings, and here in the Selection Context Search expansion everything is established automatically https://b.radikal.ru/b30/1907/9a/c048b4a524c8.jpg
P.S. Dear Daniel, if you have time and an opportunity create here such plug-in to the addition, (that "SEARCH" automatic was added on any websites, as on a screenshot) then it the price will not be.
Good luck! https://c.radikal.ru/c08/1907/19/4d077a9e4aea.jpgDeveloper response
posted 5 years agoHi there and thanks for the review! :)
I understand, but it's hard for me to maintain a decent list of search engines up to date for SSS's users, so I prefer if people add their own engines. You can also import the ones you use in the browser. People suggested creating a webpage where users could add the engines they are using, like a Wiki, though that would also have to be moderated and it's really hard to do that in my free time.
Regarding the unnecessary settings, I also don't use most of the options, but almost all were user-suggested via email, GitHub or in reviews, so someone is finding them useful. ;) If you have ideas about what to do about them without removing them, I accept feedback!
Cheers,
Daniel - Rated 4 out of 5by Renerelire, 5 years agoVery useful extension! I use it all the time for almost everything I search. I can search in Ebay and have the results classified by prices and by sells only. Same thing for Amazon.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14961303, 5 years agohello and thanks for this good add on. is there any way that i can sync search bar of firefox with the sss context menu. I imported the search.json.mozlz4 but I want when change the order of engines and add some new ones, the searchbar synces with that. what should i do? is it possible at all? i get an export file but I didnt know what should i do...
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHello and thank you for the review. :)
If I understand correctly, you want to add new engines and change their order in SSS but then have those same changes happen in the browser's engines. Is that it? If so, this is not possible. The browser engines work in a different way than SSS engines. They are completely separate things after importing them into SSS. As for the export function in SSS, it is only used for backing up your settings (you can also use Sync).
If I understood incorrectly please send me an email to daniel.rb.lobo+sss@gmail.com. The notifications for these reviews might not be the best. :)
Cheers,
Daniel - Rated 4 out of 5by Emplate, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14550762, 5 years agoLast thing you need to ad: the possibility to disable the plug-in from a personal list of websites!
Developer response
posted 5 years agoLate reply, sorry! I'll add this to my list of tasks for evaluation. ;)
Thanks for the review!
Daniel - Rated 4 out of 5by 디버거, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by void.droid.zoid, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by aeaells, 6 years agoThank you for always using Swift Selection Search.
Just like searching standard browsers
Please convert the character code of the search word.
Or, let me specify a character code for each search engine.
I am very happy if you do it.
I hope if you can respond if it is easy.Developer response
posted 6 years agoHey there! Thank you for the review and my apologies for the delay in responding.
Unfortunately I couldn't understand what you mean by "character code of the search word". Can you give me an example or two? :) If you can, send me an email to daniel.rb.lobo+sss@gmail.com or write directly to here: https://github.com/CanisLupus/swift-selection-search/issues
Thanks!
Daniel - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14113698, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12817215, 6 years agoExcellent tool to use as a doubleclick dictionary search. Unfortunately when I use my Firefox account to sync extensions my settings aren't synced! I have to add the dictionaries and favicons ...
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi! Thanks for the review! :)
You are right, SSS doesn't support Firefox Sync currently. Sorry! I had implemented it but found a bug in Firefox (which I reported here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423744) that could cause problems if the user's icon images exceed the storage limit, so decided to postpone it. It will come eventually, with the bug or not. ;)
Meanwhile, you can try the "Storage & backup" section and export your settings to a file. Then on the other computer you can import the file. I know... it's not as convenient... I understand your criticism. :) - Rated 4 out of 5by Piotr, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13928815, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by darvishalone, 6 years ago
Developer response
posted 6 years agoGlad to hear it! :) Sorry for the problems in previous updates. It should be sorted out now!Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi JunjieFu, I just submitted an update (version 3.13.2) that should fix the problem that everyone's encountering. It was my mistake. :s Apologies for the inconvenience!- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12680276, 6 years ago"Минус" только за то что меню настроек не на русском языке , в остальном же замечательное расширение ...
- Rated 4 out of 5by mkeroppi, 6 years agoDoes not get favicons for resource:// type, e.g., resource://search-plugins/images/yahoo.ico
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12148586, 6 years agoGood replacement for a legacy plugin with some new features. A little learning curve but nothing to difficult.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13492156, 6 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 6 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, 6 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 6 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