Reviews for Redirector
Redirector by Einar Egilsson
330 reviews
Developer response
posted 7 years agoYeah, sorry about that. Debug feature that got left in. Will remove in next version.- Rated 5 out of 5by MS-DOS, 7 years agoWorks fine, but doesn't redirect some links at all until the page loaded from that not-redirected link is manually refreshed.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoI'm kind of at the mercy of the webRequest API that Firefox provides there. I redirect every request they pass to me, but don't really know why they wouldn't pass the requests you're mentioning to the extension. - Rated 5 out of 5by Jacob Mischka, 7 years agoNot sure why it seems like so many people are complaining.
Would be great if there were a way to automatically sync the configurations between firefox installs, but import/export works fine.
Thanks!Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks, I'm glad you like the extension. Sync would be cool, but I'm not really working much on this anymore. Would welcome contributions from others though. - Rated 5 out of 5by Mackun, 7 years agoEasy to configure, also able to export configurations
And it's already compatible with firefox 57+ since last year
What else would you want? - Rated 1 out of 5by bilmand , 7 years agoit's just way easier to just click "Allow" every time it comes up, than trying to figure out how this POS works.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoIt works like it should, sorry you couldn't find a way to make it work for you. - Rated 5 out of 5by bugfix2, 7 years agoI've planned to use this add-on as privacy tool, for discarding tracking tokens (like google "utm_source") from URL and bypassing "away scripts" (that counts what external URL user clicked).
Unfortunately, this add-on first visits unmodified address, and only if original page loaded, redirects to another page).
Thus, it's useless for privacy purpose.
P.S. Updated FF to 55.0.3, issue is gone.Developer response
posted 7 years agoNormally it doesn't send a request to the original address. However, since FF 52 there' this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345893 which always sends a request to the original url first. It's fixed and should be released in Firefox 55 apparently. - Rated 4 out of 5by hexalm, 8 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 8 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 5 out of 5by ffuser, 8 years agoIt works great! If you could just add support for firefox android, that would make it perfect. Currently I can't find any way to enter rules on Android. Thanks :)
Or make the code open source, so others can do it. I can't access the code provided in the link. It says access denied.Developer response
posted 8 years agoThe code is at https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector , pull requests are welcome :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13008144, 8 years agoI could redirect youtube's URL from default to /embed/videoid for automatic full page display
- Rated 5 out of 5by cloudccc, 8 years agoi want to import rules from online. can you add this feature?
Developer response
posted 8 years agoI'm not really adding new features to this addon anymore, it's just in maintenance mode. - Rated 4 out of 5by deviant2, 8 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, 8 years agoThis works well on Firefox but what about androids and Iphones
Developer response
posted 8 years agoI just haven't tested it. I should probably mark it as not supported there until I can do that. - Rated 1 out of 5by chris p, 8 years agoNo way to interface with the add-on. No menu, no button. Compatible with ff android? Yea right! Same story with %90 of them on AMO. Show up as compatible when it is not.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoYou're right, I should probably remove the "Compatible with Firefox Android" thing. I just thought that WebExtensions addons should work anywhere. - Rated 3 out of 5by Artem S. Tashkinov, 8 years agoWhy does this add-on require an example for each URL? Makes no sense to me.
Also I would love to import and export to CSV files because generating JSON out of my own rules is a Herculian task.
Also, please, change the view to table or something like that:
COLUMN 1: Name (optional)
COLUMN 2: Rule
COLUMN 3: Replace
COLUMN 4: Extra options
COLUMN 5: Checkbox (enabled)Developer response
posted 8 years agoExample Url is required because it forces people to test their redirects before sending me emails complaining about something not working. It seriously reduces my email a lot :)
I have no plans to add any more features to this addon, or do any major changes to it. It's basically just in maintenance mode now. - Rated 4 out of 5by End User, 8 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 5 out of 5by Charles Kong, 8 years agoI'm running this with FF v50 32-bit. Works great! I use it so 2 more URLs end up at 1 to eliminate duplicate entries in LastPass. (For example, http://10.1.2.3->http://realhost and http://alias->http://realhost. Then, save only a login entry for "realhost".)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12616240, 8 years agoNot much to say about this, other than it works, and works well. Seems to be exactly as powerful as it needs to be.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10353549, 8 years agoThis was a great addon but it doesn't work on Firefox Developer Edition 51.0a2. Although Developer Edition may not officially be supported but does anyone know a solution for this?
Updated on Nov 8:
Hi Einar, thank you for your reply and I'm sorry that the above behavior may have been because of my configuration issue. This addon works fine on Firefox Developer Edition 51.0a2.Developer response
posted 8 years agoThis addon is barely supported anymore. Once 51 gets released I'll try to fix it if it still doesn't work. - 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.