Reviews for ContextSearch web-ext
ContextSearch web-ext by Mike B
Review by Firefox user 12740845
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 12740845, 8 years agoBest context search webextension for Firefox 57! The only one defect is the quick menu with right button... sometime the Firefox menu overlap on quick search. Maybe is better if the button to hold is the left. For all the rest, thank you!
(edit) Sorry for my bad English, but yes, sometime when i hold down the right button i have the Firefox context menu and the addon quick search together. Anyway the problem is solved with addon version 1.0.3 and the new feature, THANK YOU SO MUCH for this little miracle in webextension!
(edit) Sorry for my bad English, but yes, sometime when i hold down the right button i have the Firefox context menu and the addon quick search together. Anyway the problem is solved with addon version 1.0.3 and the new feature, THANK YOU SO MUCH for this little miracle in webextension!
Developer response
posted 8 years agoWould you mind editing your post to elaborate a little? Are you seeing both quick menu and context menu on a single hold-right-click?
(edit) Look for the option to use hold-left-click in future releases
(edit) Now a standard feature in 1.0.1+
(edit) Look for the option to use hold-left-click in future releases
(edit) Now a standard feature in 1.0.1+
203 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by frostbyte, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Beckanhaf, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FoxRefire, 24 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jean-Ricky, a month agoMUCH MORE than contextual (select text & launch) search
MULTIPLE SITES (not only "whole web" - as Google & the likes) search engines AT ONCE
makes this add-on UNIQUE !
Besides, it is HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE : provides
• different KINDS OF OF MENUS (Context/Quick/Toolbar/Sidebar) to launch searches
• many UI CONFIGURATIONS OPTIONS to fit your likes
Just a [very] few points to note :
• too many options (time to master) ?
• missing tool-tips & not always detailed enough ones...
Whatever: unique & powerful
THANKS - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13443993, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13163912, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Paulthefox, 4 months agoAbsolutley excelent add on can customise it as much as needed and works perfect
- Rated 5 out of 5by Steven_Aston, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Piper, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gemini62167, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HypnotizedNarcissist, 8 months agothe best from the best
my respect mike
easy, fast, great lay-out, top add-on
thank you very much
btw. and always good updates - Rated 5 out of 5by Кадочников Сергей, 9 months agoПрекрасное расширение, удобное, легко настраиваемое под себя.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by EarOfWheat, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by darlington95, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Dideldum, a year agoDefinitely the Best Search-addon. Nearly perfect.
Unfortunately the sidebar feature is not working (Firefox & Chromium).. - Rated 5 out of 5by Seän D. Shepherd, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ninetynine, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dom0909, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10244801, a year agoDitched my two faithful companions Context Search Origin and Swift Selection Search when I found this babe.
- Rated 5 out of 5by biggsley, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Saud, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by LawrenceSan, 2 years agoI've used many, many different extensions in several different browsers over many years. (I'm an experienced web developer, starting when the web was first invented, and can code several different web languages -- in other words, I'm not a newbie.)
ContextSearch web-ext has the most complicated, buggy preferences interface I've ever seen in a browser extension. I have it running in both Firefox and Chrome, and when it works it's great -- but trying to customize it, add search engines, etc. is a nightmare.
Currently one of the engines in my ContextSearch list is "Google Maps". It works fine in Firefox, but doesn't work at all in Chrome, just leads to a blank page. So I tried exporting it from Firefox into Chrome. Forget it! The export/import features in the extension's customization interface appears to just export the URL for the icon, not for the search engine itself? And some of the gazillion preferences-interface elements for this extension, in both browsers, appear as just solid gray blocks -- regardless of what theme I use, or whether Dark Reader is on or off, or what other interface options I choose for ContextSearch itself. Of the options (including links) that I can see clearly, most of them don't do anything like what their name implies or what I'd expect them to do.
I haven't given up on it because, for the engines I finally get working, it's very useful. But I spend more time wrestling with this interface than with all my other (many) installed extensions put together!