I have made several substantial updates to my Firefox Toolbar Tutorial. Here’s what’s new:
- Chapter 6: Scripting the Toolbar has been heavily updated. No longer do I recommend using prefixes before your function and variable names. Instead, all functions and variables are encapsulated in a JavaScript object, keeping the global JavaScript namespace pollution free.
- All sample XUL and JavaScript files have been updated to reflect the change made above.
- The installable version of the tutorial toolbar has been updated with the changes above, and is now compatible with all 4.0 builds of Firefox.
- Several grammatical errors have been fixed, and broken links have been repaired.
If you spot any errors, please let me know. Enjoy this update!
I’m currently working on adding secure search support to the next release of Googlebar Lite. This new feature complicates things slightly when using a non-default, top-level domain (google.co.uk, for example). Google’s encrypted search feature is not available for all search types, and is currently only available via one domain: encrypted.google.com. As such, here is how the new option in Googlebar Lite will work when enabled:
- For search types that support encrypted search, all queries will be sent to the encrypted domain. Your custom top-level domain (if you have one selected) will be ignored.
- For search types that do not support encrypted search, all queries will be sent to the top-level domain of your choice.
I want to make this option’s behavior as clear as possible before I release the extension, which I hope to get around to doing in the next week or two.
