A new build of Googlebar Lite has been released, adding support for Firefox 5 and 6. Also included are a new Estonian translation, a bug fix, and other minor changes. Let me know if you have any problems with this new release.

I have made a few long-overdue updates to the Firefox profile tutorial. Some of the wording has been improved, a few points have been clarified, screenshots have been updated, and a new caution has been inserted. If you spot a problem, let me know.

Yet another new build of Googlebar Lite is now available. This build features several bug fixes, and replaces the Answers.com search with Google Dictionary (in English only, for now).

I inadvertently introduced a few parsing problems into the new search word button filter in yesterday’s Googlebar Lite release. A new build is now available that fixes these issues.

A new build of Googlebar Lite is now available, fixing a number of minor bugs. Here’s the change log:

• Improved styling in a few places.
• Removed the style rules for the Qute and Noia themes.
• Bug Fix: Corrected a resize issue that was causing a phantom chrome element to appear in Firefox 4.
• Bug Fix: URLs passed as a part of several context menu search types are now wrapped in encodeURIComponent() calls, preventing certain URLs from failing to load.
• Bug Fix: Altered the XUL markup around the search box to fix some styling issues.
• Bug Fix: Added several missing search operators to the search word button filter.
• Bug Fix: Search word buttons are no longer created for the pipe character.

I have filed bug 635252 on the autocomplete bug I’ve stumbled upon in Firefox. Feel free to subscribe to it if you want to follow its progress.

I have been unable to track down why the autocomplete textbox in Googlebar Lite is failing after toolbar customization in Firefox 4. Tonight I created a small test extension to test whether or not it was a simple Firefox bug. Unfortunately, the problem appears to be buried somewhere in my code (the sample extension doesn’t seem to fail).

Partly due to my frustration with this problem, I’m thinking this might be a good time to rewrite Googlebar Lite. I’m going to give myself a few days to think about whether or not I really want to do this, as it’s a fairly large undertaking.

I have found a strange, reproducible issue with Googlebar Lite in Firefox 4 builds. Immediately after customizing the browser toolbars, if you attempt to use the Googlebar Lite search box, both the autocomplete mechanisms and search mechanisms will fail. Looking into the error console isn’t showing me any errors, though I’m using a production-level version of the extension (not my development copy). I will continue to look into this problem in the next few days, and will hopefully have a solution soon. Until then, you’ll need to force a browser restart after customizing the toolbars in order to use the extension properly.

I’ve updated chapter 8 of the toolbar tutorial, which describes how to test the extensions you are developing. Several new “useful browser settings” have been added to that section, a few of which are particularly useful in Firefox 4.0 development.

I’ve just re-uploaded Googlebar Lite 4.7.5. It should hopefully fix the locale problem found in today’s earlier release. I apparently didn’t have all of the strings submitted for translating (stupidity on my part), so this latest patch has only English versions for the few new strings added.

If you are seeing problems in today’s earlier release of Googlebar Lite in non-English locales, please manually download Googlebar Lite again from this site.

My apologies for this inconvenience. I hope to have fully translated locales available soon.