Reviews for Update Scanner
Update Scanner by sneakypete81
188 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14152813, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by SteveP, 7 years agoThanks Love what you've created. I posted this on GitHub a while ago, but didn't receive a reply. Would appreciate a reply.
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Hiya
Loving this add-on. Thanks for developing it. I can see a similar question has been asked before but I think my request is slightly different.
I have two PCs and I wondered if there's a way that when I've clicked on the UpdateScanner link and visited the site on PC1, this 'state' could by synced across to another PC - PC2? My thinking is to use something like DropBox and use a symbolic link in DB to wherever the 'changed state' is stored on PC1 and then DropBox it to PC2. Appreciate your thoughts. I know the symbolic link idea works as I use it for other synced data on my PC that lives outside DB - I just need to know if the changed state is stored in a folder somewhere? - Rated 1 out of 5by Neo X, 7 years agomany sites i watch have high lighted text and does not show the actual page correctly. Kinda annoying and does not fit my needs. I know it used to back in the day. As of its current state i have no use for it. No point in using it if it only displays SOME pages that stay in tact and others looking like a scrambled list. No options for page display.
- Rated 5 out of 5by SWCA, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by deprisonne, 7 years agoI use this Addon to follow updates one Software websites and the massive number of webcomics I read. The menu for the check options could be a bit more accessible. I would really like to have a version for Firefox on Android. I already sync my bookmarks, sadly I cannot check for updates on the items in the Update-Scanner folder.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12518043, 7 years agoI have been using this addon for a long time. I understand that ff changed its paradigm and so this addon had to as well. However, as other users have noted, it just kind of stopped working at all lately. I go to the site I have it check and there are major changes, but it always says no changes when run. I would love to give this five stars, but 3 for this current iteration, out of hope.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoPlease report problems to https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13585416, 7 years agoI get on and off problems with this potent app. Most recently, it has essentially stopped functioning and I get the message "We've detected that JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Would you like to proceed to legacy Twitter" when I try to open a scanned Twitter link. And it seems to work intermittently at best regardless of what I have fed into it. I think the problems arise when Firefox is updated.
Please make it a stand-alone downloadable app that can be used with any browser. Please let me contribute to the design of the format and help with the Beta testing and marketing. Thank you If interested please acknowledge on the developer's homepage and I will email my thoughts. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13781691, 7 years agoFantastisch, spart unglaublich Zeit beim Checken von Websites auf Updates.
- Rated 4 out of 5by harry22, 7 years agoThis extension does an excellent job of ensuring I know about changes to important web sites and full marks to sneakypete for updateing it to be compatible with the newest firefox changes.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13956300, 7 years agoI am japanese. Sorry broken English.
I have Fire Fox 56.
Older versions can not overwrite new versions.
Can I transfer data from old version to new version?
If you can, please tell me how to transfer the data.Developer response
posted 7 years agoSave your bookmarks as a .JSON file, then click the Update Scanner arrow icon, choose "Menu" then "restore". - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13951963, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Juancho Villadearriba, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by The_Blinded, 7 years agoSince I discovered "Distill Web Monitor" I have abandoned this extension after years of use. Thank you.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13926929, 7 years agoThank you very much for this new version.
Would it be possible on Mac OS (no middle click), when clicking on a website with detected changes, to open the page in a new tab?Developer response
posted 7 years agoMiddle click an item in the sidebar to open it in a new page. Please raise an issue to enable cmd-click behaviour (or whatever the usual MacOS method is) - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 8976822, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by NatalieMc, 7 years agoI loved this add on. But then in one of the updates, I lost the ability to make my alerts appear for longer than a few seconds, to make them stay until I manually close them, which means I miss alerts all the time. Please, I'm begging you, give me back this feature!
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThis is a limitation of Firefox, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1417848 - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13864686, 7 years agoImpossible de sélectionner une partie de la page qui doit être surveillée.
A consommé plus de 40 giga de data en 4 heures.
Quand le module est activé, une des instances de firefox a réussi à utilser 50 % de la mémoire (4gb/8gb).Developer response
posted 7 years agoPerformance and RAM usage has been improved in v4.2.1, see https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues/191 - Rated 4 out of 5by heyu, 7 years agoThis used to be a great FF addon. Now it has a memory leak that drags my computer to a halt. Can't use it anymore. And the delete button has been taken away.
UPDATE:
@SneakyPete Thanks for fixing the memory leak issue.
Any chance you can add a Delete button to the top banner, where the settings icon and "View Changes" drop down are?
Thank you.Developer response
posted 7 years agoPerformance has been improved in v4.2.1, see https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues/191 - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13048349, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Selth, 7 years agothere are no buttons anymore to add or manage the content being updated.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13801775, 7 years ago