Redirector

Automatically redirect content based on user-defined rules.
What is Redirector?
Redirector is an Edge extension designed to elevate the user browsing experience by enabling automatic redirection based on user-defined patterns. This innovative tool offers a wide range of applications such as skipping redundant confirmation pages or ad pages, ensuring secure browsing by consistently redirecting from http to https, or facilitating seamless navigation across sites. With support for both wildcards and regular expressions in the patterns, Redirector provides a potent solution to streamline your online interactions.

Add-on stats

Rating: 4.80 (20)
Version: 3.5.4 (Last updated: 2020-12-15)
Creation date: 2020-12-15
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • webNavigation
  • storage
  • tabs
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
  • notifications
Size: 45.25K

Ranking

Other platforms

Redirector (v3.5.3)
4.27 (338) 100,000
Redirector (v3.5.3)
4.56 (329) 17,024
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Add-on summary

Automatically redirect content based on user-defined rules. Redirector is an extension that allows you to specify patterns for pages that should be automatically redirected to other pages. E.g. you always want http://example.com/foo.html to redirect to http://example.com/bar.html.

This can be useful for instance to skip confirmation pages after posting messages on message boards, skipping ad pages that appear before you can view content on certain sites, redirecting from http to https on sites where you always want the https version, redirecting from one hostname to another for proxy servers, or just anywhere where it takes you two or more clicks to get to what you want.

The extension supports both wildcards and regular expressions in patterns. Regular expressions support capturing parantheses so you could define the pattern: http://foo.com/bar.php\?id=(\d+) and define the redirect as http://bar.com/baz.php?id=$1. In that case http://foo.com/bar.php?id=1234 would automatically redirect to http://bar.com/baz.php?id=1234. Wildcards can also use $1,$2 in the redirect urls, $1 is the contents of the first star match, $2 of the second and so on.

Click on the Redirector button next to your address bar to get started adding and editing redirects, and use the Enable/Disable button to quickly disable the addon.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Edge Add-on Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Does exactly what it needs to do
  • Great way to redirect websites
  • Simple and clean interface
  • Works well for specific use cases like redirecting to specific versions of websites
Cons
  • Does not work at all at the moment for some users
  • Lack of wildcard support in the Redirect to field
Most mentioned
  • Works as intended
  • User-friendly and easy to use
  • Issues with functionality on Edge
Recent reviews
I used this add-on to "fix" the Copilot App (Windows 11 PWA) and redirect the URL of Copilot to Copilot for Work .
by Aleksandar, 2024-10-15

This is absolutely perfect in every way. Does exactly what it needs to do.
by Jonathan, 2024-04-16

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by Ula, 2023-12-26
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Redirector requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Redirector has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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