Reviews for Qwant - Search engine & tracker blocker
Qwant - Search engine & tracker blocker by Qwant
Review by mecki78
Rated 1 out of 5
by mecki78, 8 years agoMore than 560 KB for a search plugin is a joke. This adds a lot of unnecessary functionality: A toolbar icon (who needs that?), context menu entries (anyone using that?), access to the tracking protection setting that you can also change in the normal prefs... and even with all of that, I don't see why it needs far over 500 KB, it should need less than 50 KB.
Here's how you get the same functionality as OpenSearch plugin w/o that stupid extension:
Make sure no Qwant extension is installed, customize your toolbar, make sure the search field is visible, open Qwant search in your browser, the search bar shows a little green + button on the magnifying glass, click it, it offers you to add Qwant as a search engine, select that, and you are done (all it installs is a 10 KB XML file!!!). Now you can remove the search field from your toolbar again if you don't like to have one.
PS: This is no rating of the search engine Qwant, this is just a rating for this extension! I like the search engine but I dislike a bloated extension for something as simple as a custom search.
Here's how you get the same functionality as OpenSearch plugin w/o that stupid extension:
Make sure no Qwant extension is installed, customize your toolbar, make sure the search field is visible, open Qwant search in your browser, the search bar shows a little green + button on the magnifying glass, click it, it offers you to add Qwant as a search engine, select that, and you are done (all it installs is a 10 KB XML file!!!). Now you can remove the search field from your toolbar again if you don't like to have one.
PS: This is no rating of the search engine Qwant, this is just a rating for this extension! I like the search engine but I dislike a bloated extension for something as simple as a custom search.
647 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19787198, 2 months agoSetting the default search engine doesn't even work, and the promised Qwant features are missing on qwant.com!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15099679, 4 months agoBlocking feature is unwanted. You can only disable it per-website and not globally.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17872579, 4 months agoIt breaks my most important itranet pages! After switching of this plugin all works fine.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17781217, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Claudiu, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by WmRobt, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by chibuku, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13697615, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Philip, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Абвгеёж ТТ, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bullfinch, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18937561, a year agoC'est dommage qu'il n'y ait pas de réglages pour les sites que l'on souhaitent autoriser. Ça me bloque les images ou vidéos d'intro sur un site que je consulte régulièrement (la dépêche).
Les autres anti-pub réagissent correctement et ne bloquent que les pubs pas les images des articles. Obligé de désactiver le module alors que j'aurais souhaiter garder ce moteur de recherche par défaut. - Rated 5 out of 5by Jean-Pierre, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Nicolas Thubert, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ALAIN, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18826994, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18748050, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15964908, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by David, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15071926, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ANTOINE CHARLES DOMINIQUE, a year agoContentez-vous de la perfection et restez focus sur ce que vous faites !
- Rated 2 out of 5by naitsirch, a year agoThis add-on blocks google tag manager and a script from googleoptimize.com. This breaks pages that rely on scripts that are loaded by gtm.
This blocking feature should be made optional! Currently I have to disable the add-on to use a contact form on a website. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14032377, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18592397, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18579727, 2 years ago