Metacritic search fixer

Replaces '%20' in metacritic search request to '+'
What is Metacritic search fixer?
Metacritic Search Fixer is a Chrome extension that solves the frustrating issue of Chrome's search engine unable to process spaces in Metacritic search terms. It replaces '%20' with '+' to seamlessly add Metacritic to your search engines.

Extension stats

By: Stainboy
Users: 70 ▼ -2
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 0.2.2 (Last updated: 2013-08-08)
Creation date: 2013-08-08
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 30.17K

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Extension summary

This extension is for anyone who wants to add Metacritic to their search engines in Chrome. If you've tried to do that before, you'll have noticed that it doesn't work if the search term contains more than one word (i.e. a space). That's because Metacritic uses weird search strings that replace the space with a "+", but Chrome assumes that a search string will replace a space with a "%20".

Its such a simple little thing, but it's very frustrating. This extension replaces the "%20" with a "+", allowing you to add Metacritic to your search engines!

This is the search URL you need: http://metacritic.com/search/all/%s/results

This builds on FearJiri's Google-Chrome-URL-Replacer-Extension hosted on GitHub. I have added a couple of lines so that it works in a modern Chrome Browser, and icons for prettiness.

User reviews

Works great with SearchBar extension
by Dan Chowdhury, 2014-01-20
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Metacritic search fixer requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Metacritic search fixer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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