Cleeki Add-on stopped working after FireFox 44.0.2
Any version of FireFox beyond 44.0.2 kills Cleeki Add-on. Does anyone have a solution for this?
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Have you contacted its support site? You may have to check for updates for the add-on.
Do you mean this extension from October 2009: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cleeki-instant-search/
What does it do for you that you rely on? There may well be alternatives that are more up-to-date.
FredMcD said
Have you contacted its support site? You may have to check for updates for the add-on.
Alas, no support, no updates. I had a problem with it between Firefox version 38.0.1 and 40.0.2 See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que.../1062140. Between Firefox 40.0.2 and 44.0.2 it worked perfectly. It stopped working beyond 44.0.2.
So until the problem miraculously (-as it did before-) goes away with some future new FireFox version, I'll have to stick with this older version. Bummer :-(
jscher2000 said
Do you mean this extension from October 2009: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cleeki-instant-search/ What does it do for you that you rely on? There may well be alternatives that are more up-to-date.
Yes, that's the one.
Select a piece of text, and immediately below you get a bar with clickable icons. Clicking an icon opens a new browser tab with some website with the text as a parameter: wikis, dictionaries, google web, google books, google scholar, google images, google translate, ip location search, .... anything you like. Select, point and click -- in one mouse movement.
It's fantastic and as far as I can see there's no valid, properly working alternative. I really can't do without it.
See my previous reply to FredMcD, and my old thread here.
Why not explain why you need an old outdated add-on, and exactly which one it is you use. There may be other good alternates.
The add-on jsecher2000 mentions
- Cleeki - Instant Search 1.6.8.1-signed.1-signed
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cleeki-instant-search/
Looks as if it should still work with Firefox 48 on Windows. It is also worth pointing out that Firefox already has a built in feature that does similar anyhow. If you select text on a web page and hight click it Firefox offers a web search with whatever search engine you have chosen. You can easily & quickly swap search engines. Test that out using Firefox's safe mode.
- Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode
- Add or remove a search engine in Firefox
- Change your default search settings in Firefox
If using whatever old add-on means you are on an unsafe Firefox version you puts your System and Your data at increased risk. I hope you have no important information on the computer and do not use it for banking or purchasing things.
It's odd: for a while there were Cleeki, CoolPreviews, and Interclue all offering similar preview/informational overlays, and now none of those work any more. Cleeki has an open source license so someone could update it if there is broad interest.
Perhaps more likely is that a similar Chrome extension will be modified to work with Firefox now that Firefox 48 and later versions will be much more compatible with the code of Chrome extensions.
John99 said
Why not explain why you need an old outdated add-on, and exactly which one it is you use. There may be other good alternates. The add-on jsecher2000 mentionsLooks as if it should still work with Firefox 48 on Windows.
- Cleeki - Instant Search 1.6.8.1-signed.1-signed
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cleeki-instant-search/
Yes, that's the one I'm talking about. Does not work anymore as of more recent than Firefox 44.0.2.
It is also worth pointing out that Firefox already has a built in feature that does similar anyhow. If you select text on a web page and hight click it Firefox offers a web search with whatever search engine you have chosen. You can easily & quickly swap search engines. Test that out using Firefox's safe mode. If using whatever old add-on means you are on an unsafe Firefox version you puts your System and Your data at increased risk. I hope you have no important information on the computer and do not use it for banking or purchasing things.
I hope that Cleeki will work again with version 48. Haven't tried it yet.
Meanwhile, with a search for "Context Menu" in the add-ons, I found this: MoreSearchContextMenu 1.1.5.1-signed.1-signed. It does more or less the same job as Cleeki, but there's no icons, and one must select text, right click, open context menu container "Search With", and finally pick the relevant item from the menu. So it does the job but the left and right clicks make it less handy, and the menu's are much less concise than the horizontal Cleeki bar.
For now I guess I'll have to live with it. I'll disable Cleeki and will wait for the nex Firefox versions...
Thanks!
jscher2000 said
It's odd: for a while there were Cleeki, CoolPreviews, and Interclue all offering similar preview/informational overlays, and now none of those work any more. Cleeki has an open source license so someone could update it if there is broad interest. Perhaps more likely is that a similar Chrome extension will be modified to work with Firefox now that Firefox 48 and later versions will be much more compatible with the code of Chrome extensions.
Yes, it's odd :-) Meanwhile I found a more or less acceptable alternative... for now. See above. We'll see what FF version 48 will bring...
Touching wood, and cheers!
DirkVdm said
jscher2000 saidIt's odd: for a while there were Cleeki, CoolPreviews, and Interclue all offering similar preview/informational overlays, and now none of those work any more. Cleeki has an open source license so someone could update it if there is broad interest. Perhaps more likely is that a similar Chrome extension will be modified to work with Firefox now that Firefox 48 and later versions will be much more compatible with the code of Chrome extensions.Yes, it's odd :-) Meanwhile I found a more or less acceptable alternative... for now. See above. We'll see what FF version 48 will bring...
Touching wood, and cheers!
Checked with FireFox version 48.0.2. Cleeki does not work. I guess I'll have to do it with MoreSearchContextMenu :-(