Reviews for Update Scanner
Update Scanner by sneakypete81
182 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13682329, 6 years agolooking forward to get updated to Quantum Firefox versions. Hope will be updated soon.
- Rated 4 out of 5by fredericktham, 6 years agoCant' turn off popup notification in this webex version.
Found out by accident that the keyboard shortcut to toggle the sidebar is Alt-U - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13641104, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13626239, 6 years agoIs there any way to return to the previous platform. I've used your application, if you're the original owner, for years. It is nearly worthless to me now.....but maybe that was the plan. We wouldn't want the sheeple to have effective tools. I apologize if you're the original designer but this new version was a bad move.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoYou can still use the old addon version if you install Firefox ESR v52. Unfortunately Firefox versions above v56 no longer support old-style addons - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13500233, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13602649, 6 years agoThis app was amazing... until the most recent update which essentially made it really hard to use. Bummed... I just want the old version back.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoYou can still use the old addon version if you install Firefox ESR v52. Unfortunately Firefox versions above v56 no longer support legacy addons. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13582083, 6 years agoIt is potentially useful, but was better before. The update was not a good choice. I cannot see and show updated pages instantly with one click when I get more than about 20 new websites (I cannot see the "show all updates" (or something like this)). I hope it gets another update, and I am sure it will be good one again.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13581755, 6 years agoupdate deleted all the pages I was monitoring. NO, I don't monitor ALL my bookmarks, nor do I bookmark all pages I was monitoring. I heads up would have been the decent thing to do since you knew what this update was going to do - or just ensure all the detail wasn't blown away. .Hope this isn't your profession. You'll never get another dime out of me.
Interesting how you are taking time off just as you make this live. Again, don't quit your day job. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13560727, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13558874, 6 years agoHave used this add on for many years. The latest update really slows you down. Very disappointed in this update.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoPerformance has been improved in v4.2.1, see https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues/191. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13554887, 6 years agoIt was better before.
Now - unfortunately all time there are`nt two very important functions:
• Scan only the selected folders or pages
• Add new pages by dragging an address to the selected folder
I am waiting patiently for these functions.Developer response
posted 6 years agoScanning individual pages from the sidebar is on the way- see https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues/123. The drag and drop feature is a good idea, please raise it on the issues page https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues - Rated 5 out of 5by Hecato, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13546372, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by jakiesun, 6 years agoI cannot set the code. The pages which use code big5 (a kind of Chinese code) show mess. Please fix the problem. Thank you very much.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThis is a known issue, see https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues/136. Fixing this is a priority, but I don't have a lot of time at the moment. - Rated 2 out of 5by LeSeigneur, 6 years agoit doesn't keep the sites to watch after update to ffx 57 - everything is deleted!
Developer response
posted 6 years agoYes, you need to import your sites manually. Please open the sidebar and follow the instructions. - Rated 5 out of 5by DeronLJ, 6 years agoThis is one of my must have extensions. Especially useful for sites that don't have an RSS feed.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13514180, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13504521, 6 years agoGreat extension.
The only problem is opening the changes in the same tab and not in separate tabsDeveloper response
posted 6 years agoMiddle clicking on the item in the sidebar opens it in a new tab. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13503217, 6 years agoHave used Update Scanner happily for many many years and have had problems getting to grips with this update. What a shame as it was a wonderful useful add-on to FF.
Not happy initially with the changes. At first, having imported all my Update Scanner Bookmarks, I had a sidebar showing over 200 items all saying 'New Page'. By uninstalling and reinstalling that seems to have been rectified. However, seem to have lost all identification of changes on pages that I hadn't reviewed. Now have to start all over again.
Disappointed to lose the option to right click and ask Update Scanner to scan a page.Developer response
posted 6 years agoSorry the import didn't work for you. Please try again and raise an issue at https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues/ if it's still not working.
Scanning individual pages is coming - see https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues/123 - Rated 3 out of 5by pol098, 6 years agoComparing the Update Scanner for FF57, as of 21Nov17, with its predecessor: I much prefer the old version. The new version opens sites in a page of its own, with a name like "moz-extension://f79626ca- etc. etc.". If you click on a link in the page it no longer works; on seeing a list of changed files, you can't click on any of them. This is a major issue for me.
It was convenient, with the sidebar opened, to click there to scan all pages. There may be ways round these issues, but they're not obvious. A nuisance, not major. I usually scan manually, setting the automatic scan to once weekly.
As many have commented, the scanner often reports pages to have been changed when there is no visible change; I expect that is unavoidable due to the nature of the pages, but is a nuisance.
On balance I still find the current version better than nothing; in particular I have a list of sites to remind me which to check. But it's got worse. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13498548, 6 years ago-1 Star: had to search for my old update scanner bookmarks
-1 Star: and now i go manually through all ~200 pages again to define how often i want to upate them.
-1 Star: day, week, manually... dind't you forget the month? Event calenders sometimes change per month...
(really let us define when we want to check it! (re)Update this back to where we could choose any number of days.)
Firefox can be happy that opera is harder to customize for treestyle tab. There was a day i wanted to switch. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12073697, 6 years agoThe new version does not play nicely with other extensions & open tabs and has become very inefficient. It's hogging all the Firefox 57 cpu cycles so Firefox and every page I have open is unresponsive while its running. Once it finishes (after 15 minutes now instead of 90 sec) everything is back to normal. While its updating, Firefox become completely unusable. I don't like the new menu - there's not enough control. And upgrading was a pain, with having to export & reimport which seems unnecessarily pointless.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoPerformance has been improved in v4.2.1, see https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues/191.
The WebExtension upgrade process was a bit of a pain, but unfortunately the new Firefox APIs don't allow full access to bookmarks, so a reimport was the easiest way to do the upgrade. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13487801, 6 years agoIt was my best add-on but the new version is more-more worse. Not working all webpages with other languages. There are no small menu icons upper the sidebare. I'm sorry but searching other add-ons.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThis is a known issue, see https://github.com/sneakypete81/updatescanner/issues/136. Fixing this is a priority, but I don't have a lot of time at the moment.