Reviews for Redirector
Redirector by Einar Egilsson
367 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by cloudccc, 9 years agoi want to import rules from online. can you add this feature?Developer responseposted 9 years agoI'm not really adding new features to this addon anymore, it's just in maintenance mode.
- Rated 4 out of 5by deviant2, 9 years agowhen :
 rightclick -> save link as
 the URL/address still like that ...
 andOR something like : redirector -> then send to download manager
 i do really need this ... so i use : rightclick -> save link as
 but it doesnt worked ...
 its only worked when :
 rightclick -> open new tab/window
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12793683, 9 years agoThis works well on Firefox but what about androids and IphonesDeveloper responseposted 9 years agoI just haven't tested it. I should probably mark it as not supported there until I can do that.
- Rated 1 out of 5by chris p, 9 years agoNo way to interface with the add-on. No menu, no button. Compatible with ff android? Yea right! Same story with %90 of them on AMO. Show up as compatible when it is not.Developer responseposted 9 years agoYou're right, I should probably remove the "Compatible with Firefox Android" thing. I just thought that WebExtensions addons should work anywhere.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Artem S. Tashkinov, 9 years agoWhy does this add-on require an example for each URL? Makes no sense to me.
 Also I would love to import and export to CSV files because generating JSON out of my own rules is a Herculian task.
 Also, please, change the view to table or something like that:
 COLUMN 1: Name (optional)
 COLUMN 2: Rule
 COLUMN 3: Replace
 COLUMN 4: Extra options
 COLUMN 5: Checkbox (enabled)Developer responseposted 9 years agoExample Url is required because it forces people to test their redirects before sending me emails complaining about something not working. It seriously reduces my email a lot :)
 I have no plans to add any more features to this addon, or do any major changes to it. It's basically just in maintenance mode now.
- Rated 4 out of 5by End User, 9 years agoDoes not work correctly with nested brackets.
 For example, if you want to eradicate youtube playlists, you'd better locate &list parameter and rebuild the URL without it.
 Rather than identifying all parameters for careful string composition.
 E.g.
 (https?://)?(www\.)?youtube\.com/(watch\?)?((&?v=[^&]*)|(([&#]t=([\d]*h)?)([\d]*m)?([\d]*s?))|(&?index=[\d]*)|(&?list=[^&]*))*
 has nested parentheses which are not parsed correctly by this extension.
 I'd propose to use
 (https?://)(www\.)youtube.com/watch\?(.*)(&?list=[^&]*)(.*)
 with this replacement
 $1$2youtube.com/watch?$3$5
 This way parameter &index= will remain, but won't have any effect.
 And the result will be removal of &list parameter which I am talking about.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Charles Kong, 9 years agoI'm running this with FF v50 32-bit. Works great! I use it so 2 more URLs end up at 1 to eliminate duplicate entries in LastPass. (For example, http://10.1.2.3->http://realhost and http://alias->http://realhost. Then, save only a login entry for "realhost".)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12616240, 9 years agoNot much to say about this, other than it works, and works well. Seems to be exactly as powerful as it needs to be.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10353549, 9 years agoThis was a great addon but it doesn't work on Firefox Developer Edition 51.0a2. Although Developer Edition may not officially be supported but does anyone know a solution for this?
 Updated on Nov 8:
 Hi Einar, thank you for your reply and I'm sorry that the above behavior may have been because of my configuration issue. This addon works fine on Firefox Developer Edition 51.0a2.Developer responseposted 9 years agoThis addon is barely supported anymore. Once 51 gets released I'll try to fix it if it still doesn't work.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Giovanni, 9 years agogreat add-on, easy and useful. but it lacks the support for redirecting to (file:///) URI on local machine.Developer responseposted 9 years agoThanks. The API I use for redirecting doesn't allow file:/// redirects, so that feature will probably never be in this extension.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5974346, 9 years agoUsed it to force firefox to use port 8080 instead of 80 for a specific site. At first it seemed to work alright, but then I saw that when submitting form data it doesn't perform the redirect.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12521647, 9 years agoThe latest version available when updating is 3.1.0 (updated on August 5 2016), which isn't working with FF 48.0 (redirection rules aren't saved).
 Update:
 Found out what's causing the problem. The addon "RequestPolicy Continued 1.0beta12.3" prevents Redirector 3.1.0 from working properly.Developer responseposted 9 years agoAre there any errors in the Browser Console? I'm using 3.1 on FF 48 without problems.
- Rated 1 out of 5by wigga_whambo, 9 years agoWhen I go to create a new redirector, the Save button is greyed out. Should I use an older version that's compatible?Developer responseposted 9 years agoIt's grayed out until all necessary fields have been filled out and the pattern matches the example url.
- Rated 4 out of 5by SBSW.VMtOpMrz3O9wH9D4LfkVXe-BZtw.LKrCgyBULWCG1uhlB, 9 years agoIt does not work in the last days on Firefox 48 + Redirector 3.1.0.
 Not saved settings redirects.
