Reviews for Add custom search engine
Add custom search engine by Tom Schuster
Review by Firefox user 14311006
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 14311006, 7 years agoUses external service file.io
I expected this to work completely offline, but it uses external service, which does have its own Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy, by the way. Just read the source code of the addon, and T&C with PP of file.io to see if you're OK with that before using this addon.
I expected this to work completely offline, but it uses external service, which does have its own Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy, by the way. Just read the source code of the addon, and T&C with PP of file.io to see if you're OK with that before using this addon.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoSadly there is no other way to get Firefox to accept a custom search engine, unless it's hosted on a HTTP/HTTPs website. I thought it was already quite obvious that the extension uses file.io, but I am working on making this even more obvious.
477 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by nDman, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by grisfer, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by macmoebius, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by idkkbm, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19003291, a month agoworks great, simple, greatly increased my workflow by adding a bunch of search engines, thanks to the author
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tempdirz, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by miro_ameno, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kasander, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Frozux, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cosmic_Annihilation, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheNeighborinMoorhead, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kevin Hannahs, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17843720, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Smokey lolipop, 3 months agoWorked like a charm on zen for suggestions engine! Used for duckduckgo lite.
- Rated 5 out of 5by firedoge, 3 months agoawesome addon. But it seems to no longer work? Fixing it would be really good
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11290810, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HumanistAtypik, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex_MM, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Max Perrello, 5 months agogood stuff, thanks!
tip for those writing custom github searches:
wrap your search placeholder (%s) in double quotes - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18778903, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Anton D, 6 months agothis is the oldest (longest-used) add-on in my Firefox which is still installed.
I remember having a bliss to use this add-on instead of manually editing XMLs and starting a local web server so Firefox recognizes them.
I don't have it enabled all the time but from time to time I still enable it to add a search engine. A shame this is a hassle to do in Firefox without, other browsers I use don't have such problems. Also it's sad there is no easy way to edit a search after it's added, without re-adding it with the edits. - Rated 5 out of 5by Vojtech Sokol, 7 months ago