Reviews for Universal Automatic Currency Converter
Universal Automatic Currency Converter by Baizey
72 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Elias, 2 years agoThe convert works well on sites with a few numbers that it identifies as a currency. I can easily overlook the smaller challenges there might be when it guess the currency wrong and the fiddling with the settings to make it work as you want it to.
Unfortunately some pages takes a lot of time to load or process data, as conversion can take some time to process pages with multiple amount of prices, even to the extend that Firefox itself suggest disabling it when it identifies that a page won't load.
Eventually i got around to do a performance analysis since loading a product page in a webshop made my pc fans go into turbo mode. It appears that this extension used 97% of the CPU time when loading a product page with 17 items.
While it probably adds additional nodes in the DOM and not just calculate a number, I don't fell like 97% CPU usage in 6 seconds is a good performance result. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17928793, 3 years agoNice clean and useful addon, well done.👍
i'll want to buy you a coffee - Rated 5 out of 5by WireWarxYZ, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by TURJAN, 3 years agoClean, nice useful
EDIT: ok i found a couple of places that it does NOT work at all. it was one website tbf - Rated 5 out of 5by Caleik7X, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17776088, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12522511, 3 years agoi like this extension, toggling by hover + shift works great! unfortunately, the settings are ignored: "convert automatically on page load" and "show localisation alerts". i have these disabled, but it still auto loads slowing down the page, and it still shows me these pop-ups. for this reason, i had to disable it. would love for it to be fixed so i can enable this great extension again.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16088193, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by arst, 3 years agoVery good extension. But some website cannot convert. Such as this one: https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.30.b804f5a3dU2hXQ&id=671734994635&ns=1&abbucket=14&skuId=5003219410178
Cannot convert CHY to AUD. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13646685, 4 years agoDoesn't convert from HUF
(Probably because in Hungarian it's abbreviated to Ft)
I would be incredibly thankful if it gets fixed :) - Rated 1 out of 5by superglue, 4 years agoNo matter how many times I check the settings to ensure that "Convert pages automatically on load" is unchecked, pages continue to automatically convert, slowing my browser loading time to an absolute crawl. I only need conversion for a few websites, not my entire browsing experience. Uninstalling.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17332101, 4 years agoReally slowed down page loads, and made pages with javascript updates run really slow... I'd love an extension that only activates when you highlight a text, and then shows result in a popup, like in Opera.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16396495, 4 years agoInstalled and the first conversion I entered was not accurate. (usd to cad). According to xe.com 1usd = 1.26cad.. according to this addon 1usd = 1.3cad.. what gives?
update: Thanks for the quick reply. I found that option and fixed it. I'm surprised it doesn't default to the 3 or 4 significant numbers.. at 2 it's pretty useless.Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi, did you look at "Important digits on rounding" option? It defaults to 2 e.g. it would round to only 2 significant digits, so 1.26 would round to 1.3
similarly for 2 significant digits, you can change this option to whatever precision you desire
12499 => 12000
12500 => 13000
Note: if the value is >= 1 it will always round to at most 2 decimal places - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12148667, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Private-Username, 4 years agoHad to go to settings and change to GBP from USD. Great add on, does it when page loads up, and if you click the price, it shows original
- Rated 5 out of 5by Baba5824, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Draky, 4 years agoGreat app all around. I had some problems with it early on (it is glitching on a few websites such as 4chan for me, so I suggest blacklisting those if you notice your browser slowing down), but it's an excellent app nonetheless
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14514637, 4 years agoOkay but it's missing the most obvious option in my view unless I'm missing something. An on/off button straight from the top toolbar in Firefox. It's highly infuriating!
- Rated 4 out of 5by mimteatr, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bilbo, 4 years agoHello, thanks for the addon! Can I ask - would it be hard to add support for sites which displays currencies by CSS content style - like gog.com ?
They use something like this in their styling:
._prices-in-usd ._price::before {
content: "$\A0";
}
Thank You!Developer response
posted 4 years agoI'd love to support GOG, but they use psuedo-elements to show their currencies which gives 2 big problems for me (and any extension in general).
These pseudo elements parts do not show up in .innerHTML, .innerText, or textContent (the only js/dom integrated ways of knowing what text elements provide their text content as far as I know) of any given element.
2. Ontop of that I have also found no clean solution to do reversible changes to pseudo elements, and I generally do things in this extension on the principle of "0% chance of fucking sites I alter up"
If you have insight I don't, it would be awesome if you'd share it either on https://github.com/Baizey/UniversalAutomaticCurrencyConverter through opening an issue or via email to [email protected] - Rated 4 out of 5by Heroic_Brine, 4 years agoGood app but has one massive flaw. if you blacklist a site the plugin still converts just dose not show it to you, this causes extreme lag on site with a large amount of numbers making me have to keep disabling and reenabling.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThat was actually not intended as a flaw, moreso as it simplified assumptions if the flow was always gone through, even if it wasnt shown to the user, hadn't seen performance issues either, but I may be biased since I have a pretty powerful pc, I will look at returning it to leave sites alone entirely if blacklisted (I will still allow the context menu, but then a refresh is requred if the site is whitelisted)
It would also be a great help if you would send an email to [email protected] about which urls cause extreme lag, it might be a bug I would have to look into :)