Googlebar Lite 4.7.1

August 23, 2009

A new version of Googlebar Lite has just been posted. Changes in this release include:

  • Support has been added for Google’s new Caffeine search engine, via a hidden preference (set googlebar_lite.use_sandbox to true in about:config). Note that this option currently only works with web searches and not specialized searches (images, groups, etc.).
  • Bug Fix: Drag and drop did not work properly in Firefox 3.5.x
  • Bug Fix: The Up button menu now provides the full range of options for https URLs
  • Bug Fix: Highlighted search terms should no longer cause unwanted line breaks or font-size changes on certain sites
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8 Comments

  1. Kaminka

    August 24, 2009 at 8:54 am

    Kudos!
    I think Googlebar Lite lacks two features which would make it the perfect GoogleToolbar replacement:

    1) Integrating Google suggest (Google suggest is even integrated in Firefox’s search bar!)

    2) Smarter sorting in the search history box.

    Thanks!

  2. Micah

    August 28, 2009 at 4:38 am

    I think Googlebar is giving me some memory trouble using Firefox 3.5 in OS X 10.5. It’ll jump from 150MB to 350MB when I try to open a new tab. I’m not sure that I’ve completely traced it down to Googlebar but after disabling everything then adding extensions one by one, Googlebar was the last one I didn’t enable and I don’t see the same memory problem.

    Feel free to contact me if you want more info.

  3. Jonah

    August 28, 2009 at 9:19 am

    If you can recreate this problem with only Googlebar Lite installed, please let me know. I’d obviously like to plug any possible memory leaks.

  4. Micah

    August 28, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Well, it’s starting to look like I was wrong but I can’t verify anything. I get a huge memory leak jump even without Googlebar Lite enabled. Could a memory leak even happen when a plugin is just disabled? I am not sure how to determine what’s causing the leak properly.

  5. FoTam

    September 5, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    Thanks for fixing the drag & drop bug on FF 3.5.x!

    Just found another one: if ‘Automatically search on drag & drop’ and ‘Open search results in a new tab’ is selected in Options, the latter doesn’t work: the results are displayed in the same window…

    FF 3.5 & Googlebar Lite 4.7.2

  6. Jonah

    September 5, 2009 at 10:08 pm

    Thanks for the bug report. I’ll look into it and will have a fix in the next release.

  7. Jim

    September 6, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    I just upgraded to 4.7.1 and noticed that my google products search icon option disappeared. I used that all the time. I wonder why you removed it and request that you add it back in a future release.

  8. Jim

    September 6, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    Please ignore my prior post – I just upgraded to 4.7.2 and see the product options is back. Thanks for the great product!!

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