Reviews for Trufflepiggy - Context Search
Trufflepiggy - Context Search by Clemens Mautner Markhof
Review by Firefox user 13549977
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 13549977, 7 years agoi use trufflepiggy primarily as a productivity tool doing diagnosis and research work. adding custom search pages is one of trufflepiggy's best features supporting that approach. i added dnslookup.org, whois.com, and other sites that dont do search per se, but lookup, saving time not having to copy and paste everything.
i also use trufflepiggy to help me remember good search engines i stumbled upon.
this is very helpful since bookmarking or other extensions like pocket are not suited for that category of webpages.
the new context search feature improves the usage even more, because it also works when viewing PDF's and thus it is really helpful when reading a lot of papers.
i also use trufflepiggy to help me remember good search engines i stumbled upon.
this is very helpful since bookmarking or other extensions like pocket are not suited for that category of webpages.
the new context search feature improves the usage even more, because it also works when viewing PDF's and thus it is really helpful when reading a lot of papers.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoAwesome, thank you for your kind words and contributing new searches to our database.
29 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän D. Shepherd, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ninetynine, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by frostbyte, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by geeknik, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, 5 months ago
Developer response
posted 6 months agoHi, thank you very much for your review. Don't worry we don't share or sell any data. Also you can use our anonymous profiles that don't require any personal data. If you are using a different kind of profile you can check out all the data we store on our servers via our General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) self service at https://trufflepiggy.com/gdpr.
You can read more about our data usage at https://trufflepiggy.com/privacy. I tried to put it as short and informative as possible.
If you have any other questions please contact me - https://trufflepiggy.com/contact,
ClemensDeveloper response
posted 6 months agoHi there, unfortunately this is caused due a Firefox bug which affects many extensions that use a similiar set of permissions. The bug has already been reported 8 months ago but Mozilla isn't doing much about it. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851083.
Since there is no solution in sight, and your 2 star review was a painful reminder, I just have downgraded Trufflepiggy - Context Search(v0.9.11) to the old manifest version. So this should solve the issue for now.
You may wanna update your review once you are on the latest oldest version again. That would be helpful.
Thank you,
Clemens- Rated 1 out of 5by Saud, 8 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Vitaly Zdanevich, 8 months agoPlease add ability to switch from current search page to another, for example - I am on Google now - some click in context menu -> teleports me to Bing, without selecting of anything.
Developer response
posted 8 months agoHi Vitaly, as we already wrote per email I think it's a great idea and I'll try to add sooner than later. Although Context Search doesn't allow dynamic parsing and search term matching due it's limited permissions I'll be able to add another submenu that reuses the last used search-term without reselecting.
The feature probably will make it into the official v1.0 Context Search release.
Thank you for the idea and review,
Clemens - Rated 4 out of 5by Punktir, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by okonomichiyaki, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by kelendral, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Mylk, 4 years agoThis is promising, how do I add my own reverse image search and tab (url in the current tab) search?
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi Mylk, thank you very much for your review. Modifying and adding own reverse image searches will be added soon after I have finished redoing the current search-item editor. Then you can add different search-items for different selection types. - Rated 5 out of 5by sam, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14262840, 4 years agoAMAZINGX10000. I love this extension so much. Can't possibily live without it. So useful, such a timesaver. The ui is great, so many options. I can't say enough good things.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoAh that's wonderful to hear. Thank you very much for your overwhelming review. - Rated 5 out of 5by cmustudentx0001, 4 years agoI've tried several other add-ons with the same function, and I think this one is the best. I especially like the beautiful design. Not sure why so few people are using it.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi, thank you very much for your kind words. Your review hopefully helps to spread the word and usage :-)
Greetings from Vienna,
Clemens - Rated 5 out of 5by David Maisonave, 5 years agoI highly recommend Trufflepiggy.
There are two Add-On's associated with Trufflepiggy.
Trufflepiggy Context Search
Trufflepiggy Quick Search
I don't see the difference between the two, and they're both excellent.
I recommend to use one or the other. You don't need to have both Add-on's.Developer response
posted 5 years agoHello David,
thank you very much for your review. Happy to see that you like Trufflepiggy and a great motivation boost in the morning :-)
Greetings,
Clemens - Rated 5 out of 5by Ludovic, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12449250, 6 years agoСпасибо!
UPD: Зачем эта путаница с двумя расширениями?Developer response
posted 5 years agoНе за что :-)
UPD: Context Seach is the little sibling of Quick Search. You can use your setup with both. Context Search was created later for all users who just want a context menu and no overlay. Therefore context menu requires less permissions which some users prefer. - Rated 2 out of 5by AnonAM, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12535276, 7 years agoDrag&Drop in Edit Searches Page dosen't work anymore!
Developer response
posted 7 years agoUpdate: I just fixed the issue: one of my deployment gulp commands screwed up the drag & drop script. I'm sorry for the troubles and thanks again for the report, big kudos! I might haven't noticed this for a bit longer. and shame on me that I missed this bug.
Original message:
Hi, thank you for the report. I'll take an immediate look at it. Next time you can also directly contact me via https://trufflepiggy.com/contact .
Bye,
Clemens - Rated 5 out of 5by Olivier de Broqueville, 7 years agoHi Clemens,
I'm the author of another Context Search extension, which I had originally created for friends who were disappointed that Ben Basson's extension was not compatible with ffx 57+.
I'd like to congratulate you for your extension. You've really done a nice job at making the setup both powerful yet easy to use. I also had plans to bring image searches using tineye. After seeing your extension, I believe I'll stop developing mine and move on to something else, because you've really implemented most of what I had in mind, including sharable lists of search engines. The only minor thing I don't like so much about your extension is the name TrufflePiggy because it doesn't say much about the extension and what it does (I'm not so fond of pigs either!).
Anyway, I'd like to share an idea or two that I had the intention of implementing:
1) you could extend the list of possible search engines to chose from by adding the ones from the mycroft project (Geoffrey De Belie who helped me a lot with Context Search created an API to query and retrieve data from mycroft; check it out here: https://github.com/Smile4ever/mycroftproject-query/tree/master/searchengines-data-api)
2) I had plans to create "smart" folders, i.e. folders which would appear in the context menu depending on the context (e.g. the images folder would only appear if a user right-clicked an image, and for words I wanted to allow users to define regular expressions, which when matched by the text selection would make an associated smart folder appear in the context menu). I thought this would be a really nice and popular feature, so I'm happy to share it with you now and hope you'll bring it to reality!
I wish you the best of luck with your future developments.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Olivier.
P.S. Don't hesitate to visit https://github.com/odebroqueville/contextSearch if it can be of any help.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi Olivier,
wow, thank you very much for your nice words and great feedback. I feel honored. Yup Ben's extension was very popular before the Quantum update and I like your background story why you developed your Context Search addon, which has a lovely user base btw. Hope to get there someday too.
About the name - I think it kinda fits because truffle pigs search for something valuable very fast and directly with their nose. So it is a good analogy for a direct web search tool, but of course tastes are different :-)
Thank you for your ideas.
@ 1: yup Mycroft is a great source for Open Search plugins. I didn't know about the linked github project. It is indeed a good starting point to maybe integrate and convert their plugins and even offer more searches right away. Right now I'm busy with improving the editor but I gonna take a look at this later.
@2: both is definitely planned. I already have a rule system in place to adapt and prepare selected text for some searches like e.g. my WHOIS search where it uses the current URL if nothing is selected, but currently it's not user editable. User contributed regex rules have been requested a few times and I think they will be a great addition. Your review motivates me to add this sooner than later. Thanks.
Also the possibility to create "smart folders" & searches which appear only in certain scenarios and websites has been in my feature list for quite some time. I already prepared my code base to build different menus for different scenarios in update 0.1.0. So the only thing that is needed is a small database update and UI updates for the editor, which is probably the most difficult task without confusing the user. So thank you very much for your input! It seems we think alike in this regard. So once my current tasks are done and live I probably gonna start right with your #2 suggestions right away.
Thank you very much also for sharing your code base.
Have a great day and greetings from Vienna,
Clemens - Rated 5 out of 5by LostPacket, 7 years agoThe only WebExtension that I know of that can perform concurrent searches in multiple configurable groups of search engines ("Context Search" by Olivier De Broqueville can handle a single group only).
Nice featureset, works very well, and the customer service is great. Thank you, Clemens! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12397002, 7 years agoThis is soooo powerful!
You can search any site that accepts standard GET search requests!
It has a nice interface and all.
Bravo!Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi yrden, thank you very much for your kind words.
Happy searching,
Clemens