Reviews for Swift Selection Search
Swift Selection Search by Daniel Lobo
587 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13493849, 8 years agoGreat firefox extension! Love it!! but my ebay doesn't work some how.. the URL was listed as : https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?
so how do we find the URL that can work?? let say if i want to add a random search engine?Developer response
posted 8 years agoHey there, thanks for the review! ;)
Normally, after you use the search bar on a website, you can look at the URL and see where the site placed your query. For example, if you search for "Firefox WebExtensions" on Google, Google adds "q=Firefox+WebExtensions" somewhere in the URL (among probably a lot of other things). "q" is the parameter Google uses for user queries.
SSS only needs a URL that says "{searchTerms}" in the part where your query usually goes. In the example above, that would mean the entire URL but with "q={searchTerms}" instead of "q=Firefox+WebExtensions". Your URL does not have a {searchTerms} part, so SSS doesn't know where to add the text you selected. :)
You will notice that many websites use the ? symbol and then add a lot of parameters separated with the & symbol. You'll usually be looking for the parameter that represents your query and replacing that with {searchTerms}. Most of the time, the URL also contains a lot of unnecessary parameters, so, to give an example, this simple version is what I use for Google:
https://www.google.com/search?q={searchTerms}
eBay is actually weird! It has several different search URLs, some of which very strange, but from searching around a bit it seems this one is simple and works:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/{searchTerms}
This is a bit technical but I hope I have helped. :) If the explanation wasn't clear enough please tell me. Maybe I should improve the options page instructions with a similar explanation.
Cheers!
Daniel - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11369210, 8 years agoAfter testing almost 20 different extensions, I finally found THE BEST one! Stop looking and just install it, and please read the instructions on the options page, you can even get all you already installed extensions just with a few clicks (no other extension can do this, due to WebExtensions limitations, but this guy found a way). This is the most configurable and easily the best context search add-on after the last Firefox update! I was using for a few years the Context Search X and felt sad it didn't work anymore on FF57 but this one right here is the best alternative for sure, trust me, I tried several others and all of them can't do what this special little marvel can!
Developer response
posted 8 years agoWow, thanks! :D I'm very happy to know that you found it to be the best!
Actually, a big thank you to everyone leaving reviews, if you are reading this. :) I read every single review, even if I'm mostly replying to people that have questions or problems. You all rock! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13509335, 8 years agoThis extension is the reason why i'm not leaving firefox after the big update. BIG LOVE author!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tony, 8 years agoThis is the perfect substitute for the Selected Search add-on, which won't be ported to Firefox 57+. Great job Daniel Lobo!
- Rated 5 out of 5by M.Shadow, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gammadeus, 8 years agoA big thanks for this addon !
I customized a little bit (by the fact that is highly customizable) to my taste, therefore I've already had an English-->Hungarian and also a Hungarian-->Englis dictionary on the popup menu and context menu with an external searching engine and icon. :-)
It is one of the most useful and great web extension till I tried to use in the "Quantum-era" (on Linux Mint Debian Edition with Xfce deskt. envir.).
Thank you again and again. ;-)
This great job (end the effort of the author behind that addon) deserves this 5 stars I gave.
;-)
I shall recommend this web extension to all of my friends. Developer response
posted 8 years agoHahaha it's not every day that my addon is called GOD! ;) Thanks for the review!- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13483553, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by yazidE, 8 years agogenius indisponsable and replace some addon like fastestsearch
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13476599, 8 years agoVery nice! That's exactly what I wanted, thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13475261, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shalak, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13466644, 8 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, 8 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, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by skace marko, 8 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, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mattwmaster58, 8 years agoVery useful, highly configurable and options all are useful.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Serhii, 8 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, 8 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 8 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. ;)