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Google to Release Firefox Toolbar
daria42 writes "Google is about to release a Firefox version of its toolbar, according to an e-mail sent to developers of the open source GoogleBar project. The e-mail claims to have been sent by Google engineer Fritz Schneider and is dated 1 July. "It has pretty much the same features as the latest IE toolbar except of course for things like the popup blocker," the e-mail said (Pop-up blocking is an in-built feature of Firefox)."
In case anybody's interested, yahoo's firefox toolbar has been around for a while. It worked out of the box for me on Linux and FreeBSD machines, including a 64-bit build of firefox for FreeBSD/amd64.r
http://toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox?fr=firefoxtoolba
google toolbar has other features like Google Maps, Google Mail checker, Google Video, Google Desktop searching, Google Suggest, and website thumbnails(preview images) on the Google search results.
The highlighting of the search terms in pages linked to by the results is not part of the "in-built" google search in Opera.
There's also some page info stuff (possible to emulate with Bookmarklets, but not easy), the PageRank (only the One True Googlebar can do that), and text highlighting (a royal pain with bookmarklets, but the open source toolbar could do that. Besides, Firefox and Opera have inline search, making it unnecessary).
There exists a google pagerank extension for firefox.
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Have you tried Flashblock? I haven't seen anything get around standard firefox popup blocking and flashblock. Most sites that get around firefox's popup blocking are using flash to open the window.
It is plugins like Flash and Java that launch the popups now. If you disable Java and Flash, you will find that you no longer get popups.
You can use the Flashblock extension to run only the flash animations that you want to run.
It might be a reference to Red Hat 8.0...
(may be!)Mozilla stole tabs from NetCaptor. So what? Right?
I have googlebar installed on firefox - the number one reason is the way it creates a button for each search term to let you jump straight to that word on the page. No other search tool I'm aware of does that as nicely (though I'm happy to be proven wrong).
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Adblock is used to block banners, something that the adblock feature of the google toolbar does not do.
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https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?application=firefox&id=349
why this wasnt just built into the GUI in the first place, i have no idea.
Exactly, that is the one thing I have to have. I'm always searching for something that I can't find on the page and it's so nice to be able to just hit the highlight button and boom, there it is. Other than that I really have no use for a search field at all, I almost always just go to google.com for searches in safari for example (though I don't know why).
Now that you mentioned it I found out why I get popups at work and not at home. There's an option in firefox to disable popups from plugins. Just go to about:config and change "privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins" to "2" (create the option if necessary, type "integer").
Done, no more popups.
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You're talking about the ability to search within one page, the original poster was asking for the ability to search within one site. Such as within the domain.
Could be accomplished by adding site:slashdot.org to the query, or alternatively, Yahoo! toolbar for Firefox (has been there all along) has a search within the site button.
For an in form spell checker take a look at spellbound It works on mozilla/firefox. I use it all the time, it's awesome.
There's a highlighter built into the find. Press control+f, type your word, and click the highlight.
google toolbar may be nice and dandy, but if i recall correctly, they didnt have any hotkey features (maybe they'll have it in the firefox version). but i've gotta say, you just can't beat ctrl+k.
if for every search, i had to take my right hand off the keyboard, move it to the mouse, click on the google toolbar, move my hand back to the keyboard, and enter my search phrase, then hit enter, i'd be so inefficient compared to how i am now.
someone mentioned searching highlighted words. that may be nice a nice feature, but i'd prefer type ahead find. just type the word i want, and keep on hitting ctrl+g. no need to use the mouse at all. it's not as pretty nor as simple to use as google's, but it gets the job done.
recently i changed my default search engine to A9. that was because i had recently made a purchase from amazon and my pi/2 discount disappeared. though 1.57% off isn't much, as a bargain hunter, it hurts me to not be able to save every penny i can, and it can take from 24hrs to 3 weeks after you start to use A9 again before the pi/2 discount returns. so as a precaution i switched over to A9 so it won't happen next time.
to my surprise, A9 results were very close to google's on the things i searched for and i actually got what i need from A9 just as i would have in google. so now A9 has officially become my default CTRL+K.
but i didn't get rid of google. it just takes 2 more key strokes. i made google a keyword and now all i have to do is:
CTRL+L
g keywords
ENTER
and google will work as if i did:
CTRL+K
keywords
ENTER
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Searching within one site in the default bar:
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Quickly jumping to and highlighting the words you searched for: try searching and using the buttons "next", "previous" and "highlight".
Again, what is there so great about the google toolbar that isn't already very handy?
I've been waiting for this for a while. While I appreciate the utility of Firefox's built-in dedicated searchbar (I have wikipedia, dictionary.com, google, and imdb on mine), I miss the 'open cached version' right-click options you get with the IE google bar.
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Yeah.. advertisers are smarter than you think. Try getting the FLashBlock extension and then disable Java. Watch those popups go straight to zero.
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Then learn how to use smart bookmarks. Make a bookmark, set it to:
...
Possibilities are not very limited.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
and put "g" in the keyword field. Searches are a simple as "g searchterm" in the address bar, and you gain all the space of the search box.
I've got similar smart bookmarks for google groups, images, babelfish, several dictionaries, mathworld, acronyms,
You can already do this in Firefox my friend, just download the GCache extension and give it a whirl. Works like a charm.
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Odd I like to think of myself as being part of the set "everyone" but I have no clue about what versions DeadRat is running these days, I threw that away many years ago in favor for Debian and Gentoo and never looked back.
Just because you think something is obvious it doesn't mean that "everyone" does!
Even better: hit Ctrl-F, type your word, hit Ctrl-Return.
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I am interested to know what additional features this new firefox toolbar offers that googlebar can't already do.
Well, hopefully it can share another toolbar with other buttons already on it, because the last version of googlebar I tried insisted on having an entire bar to itself, thus wasting more screen space.
Then why don't you use apt-get? It works fine on redhat.