Reviews for Add custom search engine
Add custom search engine by Tom Schuster
Review by bwaldron
Rated 5 out of 5
by bwaldron, 7 years agoWas great when it worked. Nowadays, I get an error each time I try to add a new search engine: "Firefox could not download the search plugin from:
https://file.io/XXXXXX". I have switched to the "Search Engines Helper" which also uses file.io, but works fine on my system.
UPDATE: in response to dev's question: I can visit that file.io page with no problem. The Search Engines Helper addon also uses file.io as yours does, but it works for me.
UPDATE 2: Note that I can actually manually access the file.io URL that the "download error" dalog gives me by entering it in the URL bar -- I see the source of the XML file. Hope that helps!
UPDATE 3: After updating to new version (1.8), all is working properly again, so I have revised my lowered rating to reflect my true opinion of this very useful add-on.
https://file.io/XXXXXX". I have switched to the "Search Engines Helper" which also uses file.io, but works fine on my system.
UPDATE: in response to dev's question: I can visit that file.io page with no problem. The Search Engines Helper addon also uses file.io as yours does, but it works for me.
UPDATE 2: Note that I can actually manually access the file.io URL that the "download error" dalog gives me by entering it in the URL bar -- I see the source of the XML file. Hope that helps!
UPDATE 3: After updating to new version (1.8), all is working properly again, so I have revised my lowered rating to reflect my true opinion of this very useful add-on.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThis probably means you are getting blocked by file.io, does this https://file.io/?expires=1d say "Too many requests" ?
Edit: Can you test version 1.8? If it still doesn't work please go to https://github.com/evilpie/add-custom-search-engine/issues so I can debug this a bit easier. Thank you!
Edit: Can you test version 1.8? If it still doesn't work please go to https://github.com/evilpie/add-custom-search-engine/issues so I can debug this a bit easier. Thank you!
480 reviews
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- Rated 4 out of 5by DynaZor, 2 months agowaiting for Android Firefox addon!!!! 5 stars when you release for final release firefox (meaning, not only the beta)
- Rated 5 out of 5by nDman, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by grisfer, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by macmoebius, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by idkkbm, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19003291, 4 months agoworks great, simple, greatly increased my workflow by adding a bunch of search engines, thanks to the author
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tempdirz, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by miro_ameno, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kasander, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Frozux, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cosmic_Annihilation, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheNeighborinMoorhead, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kevin Hannahs, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17843720, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Smokey lolipop, 6 months agoWorked like a charm on zen for suggestions engine! Used for duckduckgo lite.
- Rated 5 out of 5by firedoge, 6 months agoawesome addon. But it seems to no longer work? Fixing it would be really good
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11290810, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HumanistAtypik, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex_MM, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Max Perrello, 8 months agogood stuff, thanks!
tip for those writing custom github searches:
wrap your search placeholder (%s) in double quotes