QUESTION on google-search-link-fix

[Lucio Chiappetti]

I have this extension installed (caa:addon/google-search-link-fix) but I am not sure if it is still needed or working. I seem to recall it removed some annoying feature from google, but nowadays I use such search engine very seldom only when strictly necessary.
It is the only active extension I have marked as "not designed for palemoon"

Rule 3: Please attempt to find out if they are Jetpack (Add-ons SDK) by looking for package.json or harness-options.json in the XPI file and if they are then DO NOT LIST THEM.

I did not know anything about Jetpack befote looking it up and even now I can't say to know it. I only note that I have two extensions whose xpi is named {id}@jetpack.xpi. One is for google-search-link-fix but does not contain the listed json. The other one is for IDCAC which has package.json but is not flagged as "not designed for palemoon" so I assume it will be OK (actually I currenlty have IDCAC disabled in favour of an IDCAC rule in ABL).
Can someone enlighten me ? Just information, I am not requesting a solution or replacement.

[vannilla]

Well, that extension is aimed at a specific service, so it would fail to meet a different rule for that thread.

Anyway, in my personal opinion you can remove it completely.
Not only the chances of it being useless (even if not broken) are reaching 100% the more time passes, but you are better off in the long run by ditching Google entirely in favour of something else, instead of trying to work around their deficiencies.

[Lucio Chiappetti]

Indeed I've already almost ditched it, except when needed (unfortunately the case for some institutional stuff since my institution uses Gsuite). I use duckduckgo as search engine (might resort to google only to find some funny image sometimes). I use openstreetmap (which is great for footpaths) but I may reluctantly use google maps for street view or for public transport timetables.
I will try to run with the nominated extension disabled for a while and see.