Change Log

Install Version 4.6.5 - Released April 7, 2008

Added support for Firefox 3.0pre (includes beta 5 support).
Minimum version changed to 2.0. Beginning with this build, Firefox 1.x is no longer supported.
Removed 1 unused global variable and 4 unused functions left over from older releases.
Googlebar Lite now exclusively uses a chrome manifest.
Bug Fix: Googlebar Lite no longer appears in certain popup windows when other chrome items are hidden.
Bug Fix: URL anchor directives (using the # mark) no longer show up as search terms if the query string appears as the last part of the URL.
Bug Fix: Search term buttons were not being separated correctly when a search phrase, surrounded with double quotes, was immediately followed by a search term with no space in between.
Bug Fix: Search term highlighting is now automatically turned off when the user chooses to hide the highlighter toolbar button.
New Czech (cs-CZ) localization.

Install Version 4.6.4 - Released November 25, 2007

Bug Fix: In some specific cases, the onLocationChange listener threw uncaught exceptions, causing the forward and back buttons in Firefox to stop functioning.
New Greek (el-GR) localization.

Install Version 4.6.3 - Released June 27, 2007

Bug Fix: An uncaught exception in the new URL parsing logic (added in 4.6.2) was causing the URL bar in Firefox to act incorrectly when a new tab was opened.
Bug Fix: The new URL parsing was too strict. Because of this, search terms were not being updated appropriately on non-web searches (image searches, group searches, etc.).

Version 4.6.2 - Released June 24, 2007

The "Google GMail" option in the Googlebar Lite main menu now points to the secure https:// address.
Bug Fix: Searching country-specific pages often caused search terms to become corrupted in the Googlebar Lite search box. The URL parsing logic has been rewritten and should now work as expected.
Bug Fix: Some translational errors in the Dutch (nl-NL) locale have been fixed.

Version 4.6.1 - Released June 9, 2007

Bug Fix: Highlighting on pages that contained frames did not work as expected.
Bug Fix: Strict JavaScript parsing error.

Version 4.6 - Released January 6, 2007

New option allows the user to select the Google site to use across all search types, providing better localized search results.
New optional toolbar button toggles visibility of the Googlebar Lite toolbar.
The keyboard shortcut for setting search box focus is now semi-customizable (Ctrl + Shift + <desired letter>).
New "Search This Site for Selected Text" context menu item.
New "Search Videos for Selected Text" context menu item.
Googlebar Lite now does better with searches that contain characters outside of the Latin-1 character set.
Arabic localization removed due to lack of updates.
Bug Fix: Googlebar Lite could, in some cases, cause the browser menus to become disabled when customizing toolbars in Firefox.
Bug Fix: The individual search toolbar buttons were not being restored properly after customizing toolbars.

Version 4.5.1 - Released November 13, 2006

Bug Fix: Corrections made to the Italian localization (thanks to Vincenzo Reale).

Version 4.5 - Released November 12, 2006

Google Video search support added.
Google Scholar search support added.
Drag and drop support added to the search box.
New option allows user to automatically perform a web search on dragging text to the search box.
New French (fr-FR) localization added.
Keyboard accelerator to set search box focus has been changed to Ctrl + Shift + K.
Updates made to the Chinese Traditional (zh-TW) localization.
Toolbar button images are now better centered on each search button.
License file added to the Googlebar Lite XPI.
Removed legacy code that was no longer needed.
Bug Fix: Customizing toolbars when certain other extensions were installed caused Firefox menus to become unusable.
Bug Fix: Corrected a logic bug for hiding some of the toolbar separators.

Version 4.4 - Released September 16, 2006

Added support for Firefox 2.0 release candidate builds.
Added new Croatian (hr-HR) translation.
Selected text searches (in the Googlebar Lite context menu) can now be opened in a new tab by holding the CTRL key when selecting the search to perform.
The about dialog has been widened and the large logo has been removed.
The Arabic localization country code has been changed from ‘ar’ to ‘ar-AR’.
Bug Fix: Holding the CTRL key down to open a new tab did not work in the Firefox 2.0 nightly builds.

Version 4.3.1 - Released August 26, 2006

Added support for Bon Echo Beta 2 builds (Firefox 2.0).
Added new Arabic (ar) translation.
Updated the Russian (ru-RU) translation.

Version 4.3 - Released July 30, 2006

Renamed all "Google Local" items to "Google Maps" to reflect the name change (again) at Google.
Extension description is now localizable.
The code to add search word buttons to the toolbar has been cleaned up.
Bug Fix: A low-risk, cross-site scripting vulnerability has been patched.
Bug Fix: Tool-tips are no longer shown for toolbar menu items (main menu, combined search menu, and the up-button menu).
Bug Fix: Search words now appear in the Googlebar Lite search box when a new Firefox window is opened.
Bug Fix: The word search feature did not work for terms with apostrophes.
Bug Fix: Search words containing an apostrophe are now escaped properly in the resulting Google URI.
Bug Fix: The form history warning now appears after the browser window appears, not before.

Version 4.2 - Released May 28, 2006

Added support for the Bon Echo alpha builds (Firefox 2.0).
Added a new Slovak (sk-SK) translation.
Added a new Chinese Simplified (zh-CN) translation.
Bug Fix: Fixed the ‘disappearing search box’ problem, introduced in version 4.0.

Version 4.1.2 - Released May 21, 2006

Bug Fix: Corrected an issue with the Spanish locale.
Bug Fix: Corrected several problems with the Russian locale.

Version 4.1.1 - Released May 14, 2006

Cleaned up the majority of the locale files, reducing the overall file size.
Bug Fix: Corrected an invalid character in the German (de-DE) locale.

Version 4.1 - Released May 13, 2006

New option allows user to set a custom Froogle top-level domain.
New dialog warns when form-history is disabled and search history is enabled. Form history is required to maintain a search history in Googlebar Lite.
Added a Portuguese: Brazilian (pt-BR) localization.
Added a Russian (ru-RU) localization.
Added a Turkish (tr-TR) localization.
Removed some unused style rules.
The Googlebar Lite widget used in the customize toolbars dialog now uses a new icon.
Made a few tweaks to the about box.
Bug Fix: The search modifier keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Enter, Shift+Enter, Ctrl+Shift+Enter) were not working.
Bug Fix: The "Remember last combined menu search type" option was not being correctly applied to searches performed from the search box using the keyboard.
Bug Fix: The "Use custom Google News domain" option was not working properly.
Bug Fix: The search box in the Noia theme did not render correctly.
Bug Fix: Toggling the combined search or up buttons caused the toolbar’s height to change in some cases.
Bug Fix: The search box now uses a reasonable height when placed on a toolbar with large icons.
Bug Fix: When Googlebar Lite was dragged to the customize toolbars dialog, the resulting widget was improperly sized.
Bug Fix: The customize widget became invisible when dragged into the customize toolbar using the Noia theme.
Bug Fix: Corrected some translation errors in the Catalan (ca-AD) translation.
Bug Fix: Corrected the locale identifier for the Catalan (ca-AD) translation.
Bug Fix: Corrected some corrupt strings in the French (fr-FR) translation.

Version 4.0.1 - Released April 17, 2006

Minor modifications to the Italian (it-IT) translation.
Bug Fix: The German (de-DE) translation had a few corrupt entries.

Version 4.0 - Released April 15, 2006

A brand new search history system has been implemented. Features include:
- Auto-completion of search terms as you type (enabled by default).
- Inline auto-completion of best search term match (disabled by default).
- Ability to disable search history completely.
- Virtually unlimited number of search terms can be stored in the search history.
New option allows user to enable or disable single-click selection in the search box.
Brand new icons used throughout the toolbar (icons come from the ’silk’ icon library).
The highlighting color for search words is now indicated through the icon of each search word button, rather than the button’s background color.
The toolbar is no longer as tall as it used to be, thanks to the new XUL control used for the search box.
Tweaked the regular expression responsible for updating search terms while browsing Google pages.
Options dialog style sheet has been tweaked.
Bug Fix: When performing an advanced Google search, search terms were lost in the Googlebar Lite search box (a regular expression bug).
Bug Fix: The overflow button bug fixed in version 3.0 was reintroduced in version 3.3. It has now been fixed (again).
Bug Fix: The overflow button no longer flickers when Firefox is starting for the first time.

Version 3.3 - Released December 18, 2005

Bug Fix: When search word buttons were hidden, the search terms box could not be made larger.
Bug Fix: When the "Open search results in a new tab" option was enabled, viewing a cached page or cached link did not result in creating a new tab.

Version 3.2 - Released November 29, 2005

Added the ability to remove individual items from the search history (shift + right click the desired item to remove it).
Added a new Catalan (ca-AD) translation.
Renamed "Google Maps" to "Google Local" (to conform with Google’s naming).
The "Always open search results in a new tab" option now checks to see if the current tab is blank (about:blank). If it is, the search results are loaded in that blank tab (and a new tab does not get created). Many thanks to Matthew Williams for this suggestion and the relevant code changes.
The "Always open search results in a new tab" option has been renamed to "Open search results in a new tab (if necessary)", as a result of the previously mentioned change in behavior.
Added an additional Italian translator credit (which I mistakenly omitted).
Translator names now appear in their own DTD file, reducing duplicate entries in each DTD file.
Bug Fix: The following Google search operators no longer appear as search word buttons: filetype: and safesearch:.
Bug Fix: Made some minor corrections to the Italian (it-IT) translation.
Bug Fix: Left-aligned the label on the Googlebar Lite customize item.

Version 3.1 - Released November 2, 2005

Support added for Firefox 1.5.
Google Maps search added to the context menu.
About box has been redesigned and all relevant code rewritten.
The Answers.com toolbar button icon now has improved contrast.
Minor updates made to the German (de-DE), French (fr-FR), Chinese (zh-TW) and Japanese (ja-JP) translations.
Bug Fix: The combined search menu icon did not correctly show "I’m Feeling Lucky" when the "remember last combined-menu search type" option was checked.
Bug Fix: Corrected a corrupt string in the Swedish translation.

Version 3.0.1 - Released October 8, 2005

Bug Fix: Corrected a corrupt string in the Chinese (zh-TW) translation.

Version 3.0 - Released October 7, 2005

Added Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 and Beta 2 support.
Added Google Maps search.
Renamed "Dictionary Search" to "Answers.com Search". The icon has been updated, and all relevant options have also been renamed.
Removed the Thesaurus search type. After changing to Answers.com, the search mechanisms for the thesaurus search and dictionary search were exactly identical to each other.
New Swedish (sv-SE) translation.
Toolbar options can now be set from the Extension Manager (right click the Googlebar Lite entry and select the options menu item).
Made some cosmetic improvements to the toolbar buttons options page.
The code behind the website link in the about box has been improved.
Made several minor about dialog style sheet changes.
Removed old, commented code from the main style sheet.
Minor corrections made to Chinese (zh-TW) translation.
Highlighted spans now use the class attribute as an identifier instead of the id attribute (to be more standards compliant).
Bug Fix: Some Google queries were being ignored (the toolbar would not react to the Google search) due to a regular expression bug.
Bug Fix: When search word buttons were hidden, the search words overflow menu still appeared in certain circumstances.
Bug Fix: The Answers.com search query has been changed to reflect Firefox bug 309379.
Bug Fix: Changing toolbar options only affected the active browser window. Changes are now propagated across all open windows.
Bug Fix: An error in the German translation file was preventing the options dialog from opening correctly.
Bug Fix: Toolbar button labels are now readable in the Noia theme.

Version 2.2 - Released September 6, 2005

Added a "Paste and Search" feature to the search box context menu.
Added an option to allow the user to disable the Clear Search History prompt.
Dictionary and Thesaurus searches now use Answers.com, instead of Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. This was done to conform with the upcoming Firefox 1.5 release (bug #289362).
Removed some unused, commented blocks of code.
Bug Fix: The highlighter button is now enabled when a search is performed from a Google page (rather than from the Googlebar Lite search box).
Bug Fix: The highlighter button was not properly disabled if there were search terms in the search box and the user customized a toolbar.
Bug Fix: If the search words changed while highlighting was turned on, turning off highlighting would result in words that did not "un-highlight" as expected.
Bug Fix: Googlebar Lite’s style sheet for the Qute theme was not working as expected, and has been fixed.

Version 2.1.1 - Released July 6, 2005

Bug Fix: Corrected a cosmetic issue where blank space appeared at the end of the toolbar.

Version 2.1 - Released July 4, 2005

A "Cached Snapshot of This Link" item has been added to the Googlebar Lite context menu. This new feature allows you to view a cached copy of a selected link (simply right click on a link to enable the menu item).
Removed a few obsolete strings from a few translation files.
Bug Fix: After exiting the toolbar customization dialog, the last selected item in the search history was displayed in the search box. Now, the search box is cleared when exiting the toolbar customization dialog.
Bug Fix: Items in the search history menu were being duplicated after customizing a toolbar.
Bug Fix: Search word buttons were not being reflowed after changing toolbar options. This resulted in cases where search word buttons could be overflowed, even though there was enough space to show them.
Bug Fix: Fixed the context menu access keys for the Italian translation.

Version 2.0 - Released June 11, 2005

The toolbar can now be moved (as one unit) to other areas of the browser. This was by far the most requested feature for Googlebar Lite.
A Spanish translation (es-ES) has been added.
All of the Google Links in the Googlebar Lite main menu can now be opened in a new tab. To open them in a new tab, simply middle click or Ctrl+click the desired menu item.
The toolbar’s name has been changed from "Googlebar Lite" to "Googlebar Lite Toolbar".
The main menu icon (Googlebar Lite logo) has been enlarged.
The logo in the about dialog has been enlarged (from 32×32 to 48×48).
Registered style sheet renamed to gbl_overlay.css.
Bug Fix: Overflowed search word buttons now show their respective highlight colors (when highlighting is turned on).
Bug Fix: Several duplicate strings have been consolidated into one to reduce file size.

Version 1.1 - Released May 13, 2005

A Japanese (ja-JP) translation has been added.
The internal skin structure has been completely redone, allowing for theme-specific rules to apply to their respective skins only.
Bug Fix: The default locale is now en-US.
Bug Fix: A critical problem with the Dutch (nl-NL) locale, which prevented 1.0 from properly installing, has been fixed.
Bug Fix: A skinning issue with the combined search button has been resolved with the default theme.

Version 1.0 - Released May 5, 2005

The context menu is now customizable via a new options page.
The context menu can now be hidden (it is shown by default).
The keyboard accelerator to set focus on the search box has been changed to Ctrl+Shift+L.
Automatic updating is now supported.
All localizable strings have been consolidated into one DTD file.
Default preference values are now handled properly, greatly reducing the size of the preference reading code.
The homepage URL in the install manifest now points to the Googlebar Lite homepage.
Bug Fix: The keyboard accelerator used to set focus on the search box did not work in 1.0.3.
Bug Fix: Occasionally, when restoring Firefox from a minimized state, the search word buttons (if present) would not appear and the overflow menu-button appeared in their place. The fix was obtained from a patch for Firefox bug #266737.
Bug Fix: The proper XML style sheet statement was not being used in the about box. This has been fixed.
Bug Fix: A minor DOCTYPE issue was fixed in the about dialog markup.
Bug Fix: A variable redeclaration warning (seen in strict JavaScript parsing) was fixed in the options dialog code.
Bug Fix: The Googlebar Lite toolbar was too tall in the Qute theme. Several style rules have been added to fix this in Windows (the problem still appears in some Linux builds).

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