Reviews for Swift Selection Search
Swift Selection Search by Daniel Lobo
649 reviews
- 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 5 out of 5by George's collection, 5 years ago
- 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 5 out of 5by kgersen, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pete, 5 years agoDespite the fact the title introduces a small factor of ambiguity about what is actually doing, this add-on is really GREAT!
It offers the absolutely necessary functionality and flexibility, which, probably, ought to be available in Firefox, just "out of the box".
Excellent work. Thanks! - Rated 5 out of 5by All Darkness, 5 years ago
- 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.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi and thanks for the review! :)
A few hours ago, after reading your review, I was checking out how VirusTotal worked and saw that it did some "double" encoding of the search in a way that was very cumbersome to reproduce in SSS, even using replacements in searchTerms.
So I decided to add a new function that mimics the usual URL encoding, which it seems to be using.
SSS version 3.33.0 is currently in review. It will possibly take a few days for Mozilla reviewers to take a look at it, but when it arrives you should be able to use this for VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/search/{searchTerms(encodeURIComponent)}
NOTE: this does not work yet, only when version 3.33.0 is available.
Cheers!
Daniel- Rated 5 out of 5by Discovery, 5 years agoOne of the most helpful and reliable extensions for Firefox. It's simple and highly customizable. I recommend it to all. Five stars!
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15065960, 5 years agodoesnt disappear auto when click anywhere on page (it should). need to scroll the page , is stuck on some pages . this is annoying.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHello!
It should indeed disappear. :) Can you please try it with all other addons disabled? It could be a bug, but since it's working for me and there were no other reports of this problem, I would like to rule out interference from other addons first.
Please let me know at daniel.rb.lobo+sss@gmail.com if the problem persists (notifications in the reviews can be weird).
Cheers,
Daniel - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15055169, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by VimeTYRANNT, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14994061, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by XacK, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Visla, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12634745, 6 years agoAmazing! It should serve as standard of a properly written add-on for other developers. Small feature suggestion: add an option for appending selection to clipboard. This could be a real click-saver and a replacement for addons like "AddMoreTextToClipboard" or "Text MultiCopy". It could have the following options:
1. Append to clipboard (no separator)
2. Append to clipboard (add line break)
3. Append to clipboard (add double line break)
4. Clear clipboard.Developer response
posted 6 years agoThank you very much for the review! :) The suggestions were noted down. A few users have suggested more features related to the clipboard as well, so these will be analyzed in conjunction. Most of them require the permission to read from the clipboard, which some users will find alarming. I'll have to check this. ;)
Cheers!
Daniel - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14961303, 6 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 6 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 5 out of 5by AOC's Cameltoe, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13477519, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Drafer, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex, 6 years agoI have tested several similar addon, and this has everything I needed. Great addon.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14744005, 6 years agoExcellent extension, just two very, very minor suggestions. 1) Could you add a maximum character limit option to the auto-popup. You already have a minimum limit, and personally, I'd rather not have the thing pop up when I'm copying a whole paragraph. 2) I couldn't find this extension when looking for "context search" in the addon library, so maybe improve your SEO in the
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThank you for the review! I don't know why I didn't think about the maximum limit but this is why I like user suggestions. :) It makes a lot of sense. I have been away from SSS development for a while but when I return (soon™) I'll add that.
Regarding the SEO for context search, maybe that's also because there are a lot of extensions with context search in the title (which will match more strongly), but you are right, I should try to get it to appear for that search if possible. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Cheers!
Daniel - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14766370, 6 years ago