סקירות עבור ContextSearch web-ext
ContextSearch web-ext Mike B מאת
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מועד פרסום: לפני 7 שנים(edit v1.4.1)
Simplified UI for adding engines, defaults to directly adding engines to ContextSearch and prompts for installing OpenSearch engines via the API
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The api isn't 3rd party. It's mine written specifically for this add-on. It just happens to be hosted on google's app engine with a generic name.
(edit) It probably could stand to be simplified a bit for novice users. The complexity comes from attempting to integrate with Firefox's One-Click search engines. If I kept it simple with bookmark keywords, the search engines wouldn't be added to the OpenSearch engines in the search toolbar. Adding OpenSearch engines requires an external URL, so the api is necessary. I'll look into adding a simple/advanced option that bypasses all OpenSearch integration and just adds to ContextSearch
Simplified UI for adding engines, defaults to directly adding engines to ContextSearch and prompts for installing OpenSearch engines via the API
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The api isn't 3rd party. It's mine written specifically for this add-on. It just happens to be hosted on google's app engine with a generic name.
(edit) It probably could stand to be simplified a bit for novice users. The complexity comes from attempting to integrate with Firefox's One-Click search engines. If I kept it simple with bookmark keywords, the search engines wouldn't be added to the OpenSearch engines in the search toolbar. Adding OpenSearch engines requires an external URL, so the api is necessary. I'll look into adding a simple/advanced option that bypasses all OpenSearch integration and just adds to ContextSearch
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- דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת frostbyte, לפני 4 ימים
- דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת Beckanhaf, לפני 16 ימים
- דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת Jean-Ricky, לפני חודשMUCH 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 - דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת משתמש Firefox 13443993, לפני 3 חודשים
- דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת משתמש Firefox 13163912, לפני 3 חודשים
- דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת Paulthefox, לפני 4 חודשיםAbsolutley excelent add on can customise it as much as needed and works perfect
- דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת Steven_Aston, לפני 4 חודשים
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- דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת HypnotizedNarcissist, לפני 8 חודשיםthe best from the best
my respect mike
easy, fast, great lay-out, top add-on
thank you very much
btw. and always good updates - דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת Кадочников Сергей, לפני 9 חודשיםПрекрасное расширение, удобное, легко настраиваемое под себя.
- דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, לפני 10 חודשים
- דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת EarOfWheat, לפני שנה
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- דירוג 5 מתוך 5מאת משתמש Firefox 10244801, לפני שנהDitched my two faithful companions Context Search Origin and Swift Selection Search when I found this babe.
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- דירוג 1 מתוך 5מאת LawrenceSan, לפני שנתייםI'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!