Reviews for Context Search
Context Search by Olivier de Broqueville
259 reviews
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posted 5 years agoThank you for your review. We're glad you enjoy using Context Search.- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15241320, 5 years agoIts great., however can I suggest one feature:
Would love for a few of the searches to be directly on the right click menu rather under the Context Search drop down menu. - Rated 4 out of 5by Danko, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15126044, 5 years agoThis one now deletes my custom search engines whenever I open the browser, but it used to work perfectly. Hopefully, there will be a fix for this soon. I appreciate all the hard work done by the developers to make a great add-on.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15099468, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15034075, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by GaryK, 5 years agoHi Olivier. Thanks very much for this extension and your time spent developing it. It replaces a now deprecated extension and is very valuable to me. I am having an issue with 3.72 that others have reported. Namely, when I delete a search engine the list of search engines disappears. A refresh brings it back, but this adds a lot of time to the removal process.
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posted 5 years agoHi Gary, thank you for your review. I'm aware of this bug and am working on a fix. Please, bear with me. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15013748, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by feedbach, 5 years agoVery useful and easy to customize! Everyone should try it. Thank you for your work
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14782563, 5 years agoHi, v. 3.72 is broken in Waterfox win 64. it shows the menu, but it does nothing. I rolled back to 3.69 and it seems to be fine.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Getoffthisplanet, 5 years agoBeen using this add-on for about a year and other than a couple small issues it works great.
Ordering the list of search engines is a little tedious.
I can't say I'm happy with the exif reader in 3.72, I'd like to have an option to remove it.Developer response
posted 5 years agoContext Search Lite has been released. It's the same as Context Search but without added functionalities such as the Exif Viewer. https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/context-search-lite/ - Rated 5 out of 5by ardi21, 5 years agoIt's a very usefull add-on but the last update broke it. The context menu dissapeared from right-click options...
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posted 5 years agoSorry for the trouble. Had a hard time debugging things. I hope the latest release 3.72 will fix the major issues. Thank you for your kind support and understanding. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14738532, 5 years agoLove the Add-On, hope you manage to fix it soon.
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posted 5 years agoSorry for the trouble. Had a hard time debugging things. I hope the latest release 3.72 will fix the major issues. Thank you for your kind support and words of encouragement. - Rated 5 out of 5by Alpaca Power, 5 years agoaddon is also broke for me but I saw the replies so I know dev is trying to fix the problem. Can only cheer on with a 5 star review while I await the fix...
==edit April 6==
I think the addon is fixed for me now! Thank you so much for the quick fix!Developer response
posted 5 years agoSorry for the trouble. Had a hard time debugging things. I hope the latest release 3.72 will fix the major issues. Thank you for your kind support, understanding and patience. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13300061, 5 years agoUnfortunately, the add-on v 3.71 has stopped working again, the context menu was gone. I am very upset!
Old versions of FF has crashed at start!
Today It hasn't been worked. Then I have REinstalled (latest) firefox. I previously saved the file of my own search engines (synchronized with my firefox account for lovely addons, saved my browser bookmarks - it did not need to be restored). It has been start working. :) But I have lost S3.Translator. This addon required own reactivation solutions.
Now I using only old version 3.69 which available right-here.Developer response
posted 5 years agoSorry for the trouble. Had a hard time debugging things. I hope the latest release 3.72 will fix the major issues. Thank you for your kind support and understanding. - Rated 5 out of 5by AC, 5 years agoUsing v3.71 but the options menu in the context menu keeps disappearing intermittently. Can't wait for the fix. Excellent addon otherwise, one that I can't live without. Kudos to the dev.
EDIT:
Thanks to the dev for a swift response and update. Works perfectly now.Developer response
posted 5 years agoSorry for the trouble. Had a hard time debugging things. I hope the latest release 3.72 will fix the major issues. Thank you for your kind support and understanding. - Rated 4 out of 5by Alan O, 5 years agoIt's a great addon, but it don't recognize the search engines I had in firefox and the import option needs a .json file that I haven't.
EDIT: Well, I can export json file but when I import json file, only have "undefined" search engines.Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi Alan, Thanks for your review. You first need to backup your search engines by exporting them. That'll generate the .json file you can later import if ever you should lose your list of favourite search engines. Let me know if you have any other questions. - Rated 5 out of 5by hermann-san, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mandamus, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14361362, 5 years agoThank you for your great addon!
I would like to make the following two suggestions:
1. An additional option for appearing results “In the sidebar” (in the “Where should search results appear?” setting).
Similar application: On “Quick dictionary” and “Search in Sidebar” addons.
2. Direct Right-click or Shift-click on single words (without a selection precondition).
Similar application: On the (now deprecated) “Wiktionary and Google Translate” addon.
An excellent feature in terms of speed, that works even by clicking on youtube onscreen subtitles’ words (which anyway can’t be selected).Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi and thank you for your review. I especially like your first idea.. I'm working on it but I'm afraid not all search engines will work in the sidebar because they don't all accept HTTP requests. I had issues with DuckDuckGo, namely. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14669111, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by chaoscreater, 5 years agoWorks, but doesn't account for scenarios where there may be additional search strings after the "=" operator.
Other search engines would use a variable or something in place of the search query, e.g. %s represents the search term. You could place %s anywhere in the search URL.Developer response
posted 5 years agoAs stated in the description under point 5: "The checkbox is followed by the search query string. This is the generic url you would use to perform a search. Search query strings may contain the parameters %s or {searchTerms} where you'd like your search terms to appear, i.e. the selected text." - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13545587, 5 years agoNice add-on, but where is the grid option?
Thanks for the response, can we have an option to use the grid without shift-clicking? Like, when it's "on" in settings, it shows the grid right away, and if it's "off" it works just like it does atm.Developer response
posted 5 years agoThe grid of icons is displayed when you shift-click on your selected text.