Reviews for Add custom search engine
Add custom search engine by Tom Schuster
456 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by sergio, 6 years agoPoorly support. Author will close your issues and ignore errors. It allows you to use invalid (unsupported by firefox) image formats.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14067989, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by m_gol, 6 years agoThis is awesome! I missed Chrome's search engine handling when I migrated to Firefox and this extension has filled the void perfectly. It also shows that even such a simple extension can be really pretty! :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vidal, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by firechu, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by bwaldron, 6 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.Developer response
posted 6 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! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14536744, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by chris791, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13360870, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by EarthWindAndFirefox, 6 years agoThis is the simplest and also the best extension of its kind, and the only ready-made solution for custom search engines since pre-Quantum times. The icon feature is excellent. As mentioned previously, the ability to export settings would make this even better. Thanks for this solid add-on!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rafael Santos, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14450542, 6 years agoDoesn't seem to do anything.
There's no options button for it in the addon menu.
There's nothing in the search options.
How are you supposed to use this addon to add a search engine?
And why dafuq you don't tell us how?Developer response
posted 6 years agoI hope I made this a bit clearer now. You can also use the options button in about:addons now. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14445587, 6 years agoFor some reason, I had not seen the blue magnifying glass the first time around. This time it worked and I managed to add the search engine that other add-ons could not add properly.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThe blue magnifying glass icon should be on the right of your URL or search bar, click on that. If you have too many items you might need to click the overflow marker >>>. Otherwise please open an issue on github and describe your problem in more detail. - Rated 5 out of 5by Tulirebane, 6 years agoDoes what it says. Would be nice to have an export function too, for easy website implementation/AMO upload.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14428776, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Korwin, 6 years agoFOSS. It works in Mozilla Firefox 133.0 (64-bit) under Windows 10, but you have to enter everything manually, not visually, without using the keyboard, as is implemented in similar add-ons. Some sites are incompatible with such a search due to the replacement of the space character (%20) with the “+” character.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14387649, 6 years agoCurrently broken: "TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.[Learn More]" when adding a new engine.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoI assume file.io was temporary unavailable. If this problem continues please contact me via https://github.com/evilpie/add-custom-search-engine/issues/new - Rated 3 out of 5by Toxip, 6 years agoDoes what needs to do pretty well except it doesn't support POST method for search engines like startpage.com for example.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoI actually had this planned for a while. I uploaded a new version that supports this. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13317020, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by KT, 6 years agoWorks exactly like I want! So flawless! I am picky because so many add-ons I have tried did not work as smoothly as I had hoped. This did the steps perfectly even though I was doubtful at first. Thanks Tom!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14311006, 6 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.Developer response
posted 6 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.