Comments for Born Geek

Comment on Updates to Toolbar Tutorial Example by Gustavo

Gustavo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:18:19 +0000

Hello,
I have followed your Firefox toolbar tutorial and I found it wonderful. However, I am trying to implement a toolbar that once I click on a menubar, a list can be displayed and I can access some windows by clicking on the option. I tried to make it by using the window.open function but it did not work. Can you please help me with some hints or some examples regarding it?
Thanks in advance
Gustavo

Comment on Googlebar Lite 4.7.3 by Splintkit

Splintkit — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:59:48 +0000

Awesome, good luck.

“As I have been looking into this problem, it seems more likely that it’s actually a bug with Firefox.”

I tried the official Google Toolbar as well as an extension called “SearchWP” which gives a word find option to the FF searchbar. Both don’t have the problem that GBL has.

Comment on Googlebar Lite 4.7.3 by Jonah

Jonah — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:28:03 +0000

I have no ETA for the next release. As I have been looking into this problem, it seems more likely that it’s actually a bug with Firefox. The Googlebar Lite code for word search hasn’t changed in a long time, and the interfaces I’ve been using in Firefox are also frozen. So, I’m not sure why it all of a sudden doesn’t work.

I will continue to investigate this issue. Hopefully I can figure out the underlying problem.

Comment on Googlebar Lite 4.7.3 by Splintkit

Splintkit — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:06:18 +0000

“This is a known problem, introduced with Firefox 3.6. I hope to have a fix in the next release.”

Thanks man. Any idea when the new version might come out? I do a lot of work on sites with text boxes and not being able to word search on GBL is forcing me to use the FF Find Bar (which is a bit of a pain).

Comment on Googlebar Lite 4.7.3 by justposted

justposted — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:36:43 +0000

Hurrah! Thank Jonah. My screen space is optimised again.

Comment on Googlebar Lite 4.7.3 by Jonah

Jonah — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:34:49 +0000

After you move the Googlebar Lite toolbar item, you need to turn off the Googlebar Lite toolbar. Simply go to the View » Toolbars menu, and uncheck the Googlebar Lite option. The space you are talking about will disappear!

Comment on Googlebar Lite 4.7.3 by justposted

justposted — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:39:22 +0000

Let me start by saying “thank you” for this brilliant extension. It remains one of the main reasons I use Firefox rather than Chrome. Ironic, given that it (Chrome) is a Google product.

Using Firefox 3.6, I have put the Googlebar on my navigation toolbar to save screen space. Unfortunately, it creates a toolbar-sized blank space between the navigation bar and the tabs, so I lose the advantage of putting everything on one bar. Is there a workaround or fix for that?

It has happened on previous versions too, but not consistently in my experience, so it may not happen to everyone.

Thanks.

Comment on Googlebar Lite 4.7.3 by Polychronopolis

Polychronopolis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:10:06 +0000

To clarify my request, if you install Google Toolbar, in the options under layout is the ability to replace Firefox’s search box with the search box from Google Toolbar.

I’d like to have two instances of GoogleBar Lite. The first instance would contain only the search box. I would use this toolbar to replace the search bar in Firefox.

The second instance would contain only the buttons that I wish to you. The search box would be turned off and the rest of the bar would be used for word-search buttons. This toolbar would sit below my bookmarks toolbar and would stretch the entire window.

This layout has proved very useful to me and is really the only reason that I have Google Toolbar installed. Personally, I like having a lot of space available for the search words feature.

To summarize, I’m requesting two features: Add a second instance of the toolbar and the ability to hide the search box.

Comment on Googlebar Lite 4.7.3 by Jonah

Jonah — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:23:20 +0000

This is a known problem, introduced with Firefox 3.6. I hope to have a fix in the next release.

Comment on Googlebar Lite 4.7.3 by Splintkit

Splintkit — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:37:05 +0000

Hello, for some reason I’m having a problem with Googlebar Lite’s word-search feature.

The word-search stops working after it highlights a term that’s in a text-input box (like the search box on Google.com).