Sunday, October 16, 2016

Tips and Tricks: Firefox redirection

There is a Firefox addon that automatically replaces URLs locally in your browser. To redirect all Wikipedia links to Infogalactic, add the following rule:

Redirect:*://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*
to: https://infogalactic.com/info/$2

For example, this will redirect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon to https://infogalactic.com/info/Bacon. So, when you google something and the first result is a Wikipedia link, when you click on it you'll be taken to Infogalactic instead.

5 comments:

  1. Will it crossover to PaleMoon?

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    1. The Pale Moon "Known Incompatible Add-ons" page (https://addons.palemoon.org/resources/incompatible/) says that you have to use version 2.9.3 with Pale Moon. You can find it at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/versions/?page=1#version-2.9.3 and it should install in Pale Moon with no problems.

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  2. make sure you click the bubble for wildcard instead of regular expression under pattern type. The version linked by James works perfectly on PM, thanks.

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  3. For Chromium users: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/ocgpenflpmgnfapjedencafcfakcekcd

    Works exactly the same way, just make sure to select "Wildcard" instead of "Regular Expression".

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