Reviews for Swift Selection Search
Swift Selection Search by Daniel Lobo
Review by DavidGB
Rated 5 out of 5
by DavidGB, 8 years agoThis is a great extension without which I wouldn't use Firefox. Thanks so much for it. There's one additional feature I'd love to see, though, which is in the similar 'Selection search' extension for Chrome. In that, in the list of search engines in the options, as well as new search engines one can add submenus and drag some of the search engines into them. In use, the submenus show up in the popup as folder symbols, and on moving the mouse over one of these folders (NOT clicking on it, just hovering over it) a further popup opens on top of the main popup containing the search engines that were put into the submenus in the Options. So, for example, my main popup contains the copy and launch URL, Google, Wikipedia, IMDB etc, but also 3 folders, one of which on mouseover opens a further popup of dictionaries, another of shopping site searches etc. This makes the main popup more reasonable in size and finding things easier than with this extension in Firefox where my Swift Selection Search has all the same search engines configured but the popup contains ALL of them as a mass of icons in a large popup. SO it would be great if you could add this feature. (Note that the engines put in a submenu both appear on mouseover of a folder in the popup, and appear in submenus in the context menu, if display in context menu is also selected.)
Developer response
posted 8 years agoHi! Thanks for the suggestion and for the glowing review. :) Folders are quickly becoming the most requested feature right now and it's definitely on my plans. Unfortunately for me, it's a feature that will take a long time to implement (taking into account the amount of free time I have, and motivation :p), so I'll have to deal with other things in SSS first, before venturing into it. But it's something I want to do in one form or another. :) Cheers!
701 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by aniline, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12643016, 2 months agoOne of favorite addons, but I experience a weird bug every few months: popup behavior somehow switches from the default "Auto" to "Keyboard-only"
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19802107, 2 months agoTotal garbage. Excessively complicated with no useful instructions whatsoever. There's not even an icon.
- Rated 5 out of 5by yu, 4 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18968300, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Miltiades, 5 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by real5sal, 5 months agoplease add link text support,it is difficult to select link text in many website and no option in right click
- Rated 5 out of 5by Patrick, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dom, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by atata, 7 months agoIt's great.
However, as the number of search engines I want to use increases, it becomes too large to fit them all.
It would be great if it had a multi-level structure using folders like bookmarks. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17966372, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ozob, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Leviii, 9 months agoAmazing addon, I have bunch of search engines saved and it prevents me from routing everything through google. Also I have integrated it with everything windows search app which makes it even more useful. Currently development is stalled but it's become irreplaceable for me.
- Rated 5 out of 5by centurion 2000, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by meonmf, 10 months agoThis extension is absolutely fantastic—the intuitive yet powerful interface, the deep customization options, and the full backup and restore features make it a joy to use. Truly impressive work. You've covered it all (except an Android version 😭 though I know there's a fork I can use instead).
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ugarov, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aissa Jessus, 10 months agoVery effect and clean. Easy and quick to setup and add new search sites and customize them.
I am currently using it heavily for cross sites search and routine custom searches.
Salutes to Authors and Contributors. - Rated 5 out of 5by Damocles, 10 months agoAwsome thank you ! Lot's of settings, it's my favorite addon
- Rated 5 out of 5by Arbeitor, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Leon, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by RichardJT, a year agoGood morning , i hope you're well. So, more default SEs nice, but easy enough to add. Sweet, sweet ride!!! Stays open when other tasks need attention; not like bill's menus.
6/5 bc this your only add-on.
7/5 bc i can't see a way to donate for your exceptional effort. C u on github, hopefully.
Peace, r