Update Scanner

Monitors web pages for updates. Useful for websites that don't provide Atom or RSS feeds.

Total ratings

3.95 (Rating count: 188)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Works well for tracking changes on websites
  • Integrates with Notification Sound for alerts
  • Useful for infrequent updates on webpages
  • Has helped users for many years without issues
Cons
  • Not maintained for a long time (almost 5 years)
  • Frequently fetches empty pages or no visible changes
  • Minimum autoscan time is 5 minutes
  • Randomly deletes user alerts without explanation
  • Some features are outdated or lacking, like email notifications
Most mentioned
  • Lack of maintenance and support
  • Functionality has diminished over time
  • Used to work well, now has numerous issues
  • User appreciation for its long-term usefulness
  • Desire for more frequent scan intervals
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User reviews

Recent rating average: 3.80
All time rating average: 3.95
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Date Author Rating Comment
2024-08-16 William_H Used to work like a charm, and for some sites it still works. But most of the time it doesn't work anymore, and you just see a blank page without the changes visible. When you visit the Github page of this project, you see why, the add-on isn't maintained for a long time (almost 5 years) and the developer says he is not able to maintain it anymore. Unfortunate because it was a great project, which really worked fine.
2024-04-27 Firefox user 14643647 WOW! I've been searching for tool like this for a long time. Thank you!
2024-03-30 Zaltys Used to work, but just fetches empty pages...? And worse, randomly deletes the alerts that I've added with no apparent cause.
2024-02-29 nihy999
2023-12-13 Firefox user 15728110
2023-12-12 Firefox user 18192326
2023-09-28 WHRoeder "Click this Panel" Doesn't work in Win11/FF117
2023-07-20 AQUA
2023-06-14 Firefox user 12773223
2023-06-09 Firefox user 17519858 Sadly, given the lack of response to any of the security related pull requests, I have to conclude this once useful extension has been abandoned. Thanks for years of usefulness.
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