Reviews for Swift Selection Search
Swift Selection Search by Daniel Lobo
649 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13466919, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13466644, 7 years agoFinally found replacement for Clickless Menu! Spent awhile Googling before stumbled across this. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Remy.H, 7 years agoFinally I find the extension I was dreaming to have. This extension is a must have for me and as firefox user I was using chrome ONLY because there was a similar extension that I could not find for firefox. You can easily customize the add-on and make your own search engines.
EX: add this in the addon settings: https://translate.google.com/?source=gtx_c#auto/en/{searchTerms} and now you can select any text and directly get a translation on google translate. I have added my favorite dictionaries like Larousse, Merriam-Webster etc.. and I have a translation with one click.
Million Thanks for the excellent job. - Rated 5 out of 5by Hegel, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by skace marko, 7 years agoJust what I was searching for ;)
I went back to FF52 ESR, because in quantum doesnt work my favorite auto search addon, but I found a great replacment.
Thank you very much mr. dev. - Rated 5 out of 5by t7yang, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mattwmaster58, 7 years agoVery useful, highly configurable and options all are useful.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Serhii, 7 years agothe best extension! As a search engine I added Google Translate link https://translate.google.com/?sl=da#auto/en/{searchTerms} , so i can translate now the selected text too!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Homme-Nuage, 7 years agoI think I found a nice replacement for Context Search (the one by Ben Basson) and Drag & Drop Zones (which is broken).
It's a very good thing to be able to import engines from the search.json file.
Some of my engines were imported twice, because of the multiple links that exist in some files, but I must clarify that I created custom search engines with XML files, in an amateur way (imitating other search engines) and maybe I didn't do too well. Edit : it is now fixed.
The open as link button doesn't work but I expect it will be fixed soon enough. Edit : it actually worked for single-word and hyphened-word searches but not for a text with spaces or words separated by colons. The dev allowed the former with their last update but the later is forbidden by Mozilla.
Would it be possible to save the preferences ?
Thanks for your work, it is well thought out and deserves a better place on this website.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHey there, thanks for the review! :) I'm strongly inclined to believe that your duplicate imported engines were caused by a bug that I fixed in 3.6.0. Hopefully!
Could you please tell me more about the "open as link" icon not working? (or report the problem to https://github.com/CanisLupus/swift-selection-search/issues) It seems to be working for me, but sometimes the problem is hard to reproduce. An example would help a lot!
Exporting the preferences or even syncing with Firefox Sync is in my plans. ;) - Rated 5 out of 5by cz104th, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Orangutan, 7 years agoVery customizable. Is the only add-on of its kind that can directly import from search.json.mozlz4 saving you a lot of time. Developer is very nice and personable too :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by manuxuser, 7 years agoI used to work with Opera because it get this ability to use this overlay functionnality, which very usefull with netbook.
Now, it totally powerfull in Firefox, I think it had to be integrated out of the box in FF. Bravisssssssiiiimmmmooooo and thank you ! - Rated 5 out of 5by graycatgrayhat, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by graycatgrayhat, 7 years agoWonderful replacement to other context search extensions, plus has extra options to fine tune the menu and icons.
- Rated 5 out of 5by tvfj, 7 years agoEssentially two addons in one and HIGHLY customizable.
If you don't like the popup, you can just use it in the context menu. It also lets you define how new tabs are opened (load in current tab, open in new tab, open in tab next to this one, open in a new tab without switching to it...), and even define a middle-click setting as well.
Protip: To import your browser search engines, you can press Shift+F2 to bring up the GCLI, and use the command "folder openprofile", then get the file it mentions. No need to hunt, and if you have multiple profiles no need to try and figure out which one is your actual one.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for your review. :) I'm glad you like it! I also want to add that I didn't know about that command nor the shortcut, so I should thank you again for that tip. ;) Cheers! - Rated 1 out of 5by meg, 7 years agoWhen I first installed this the popup menu whenever I selected something was a surprise, but once I got used to it I decided it was really helpful. Now it's gone.
This is probably related to the "web extension" change discussed on the add-on page but I don't really understand how that works, and even though there's a statement there saying "Your settings from previous versions are incompatible. You'll have to customize what you need again. :( " I see no instructions for how to do that, not there and not on the GitHub page. I switched to this after the context-menu search add-on I had stopped working; I guess it's time to find another one of those.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi Meg! Sorry for the lack of instructions. I realize I might not have done well in that regard. You're right, the change to WebExtensions made it harder to access the search engines that you have in Firefox, so it's not automatic anymore and, therefore, definitely not as intuitive (I wish it was!).
I'll make a note to improve this in the future. I'll also try to explain now. :)
I couldn't understand if the popup was not appearing at all for you now, or if the problem was only that only a few engines appear now. For the second case:
If you go to the add-ons page that has your Firefox extensions (Ctrl+Shift+A is the easy way to go there) and then open Swift Selection Search (SSS) you will be in the "options" page. You should see a lot of options below the add-on description, but the most important ones are at the top under "Search engines": the table of search engines and a button labeled [Select "search.json.mozlz4"] below it. That button lets you give SSS the file that contains the search engines present in Firefox itself. You have a few instructions to the right of the button on where to find this file. After that you should have your engines back, hopefully.
If you have trouble with anything, you can contact me at daniel.rb.lobo+sss@gmail.com and I'll try to help. :)
Regards,
Daniel - Rated 5 out of 5by Orodeous, 7 years agoit is great but when I add a search engine I can not give its favicon, it adds google favicon itself
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHey! Thank you for the review. :) After adding a new search engine you should be able to change the icon URL in its rightmost text field (the column named "Icon link"). By default it is "https://www.google.com/favicon.ico" but you can change it. Just to be clear, using images from your computer is not supported; only URLs. I hope that's alright!
Cheers!
Daniel - Rated 5 out of 5by ruanri, 7 years agoPlease add the synchronization feature for search engines, settings, popup menu style. Thank you.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHey, thank you for the review! :) Sync is not implemented yet, but I stopped by to say that it (and possibly "export to file") is in my plans. ;) - Rated 5 out of 5by brisingr, 7 years agoThank you for support Webextension. Looking for this addon for a long time.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6999874, 7 years agoThanks for this important work which also included a better option panel. You still managed to easily reuse FF's search engines. The elements are now individualized, which opens up new perspectives for future development:
1-Sizing icons according to their importance
2-Adding additional layers to icons such as the arrow at the bottom left of Windows shortcut to differentiate identical elements: between wikipedia of different languages, we would annotate their language code for example.
Other suggestions:
3-The right mouse button should be reactive also in the bubble
4-The bubble should be formatted freely in css.
5- A timer to automatically clears the bubble
About the right-button menu:
6-The three mouse buttons should be as reactives as in the bubble.
7-Should be inspired by the Quick Context Search add-on