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Google Toolbar v.4
SpecialSauce writes "Google's gone and released v.4 Beta of their toolbar. Updates include: customizable buttons, smart search box, a bookmark feature that's tied to the users google.com account, and a send to SMS/Blogger/gmail button." Doesn't look like the mac version is updated yet, although the shared bookmarks thing creates unholy lust in my heart. Now if only it would allow you to search multiple search engines like Firefox's built in search.
I'd love to be able to search IMDB of Gracenote from google toolbar
You can search both of those using Firefox's search engine add-ons (along with thousands more)
Not that google's tool bar isn't nice and all - but its much better to use something open source that doesn't censor results for opressive regimes
My pics.
Now if only it would allow you to search multiple search engines like Firefox's built in search.
Actually, according to Google, custom buttons can be easily made to use whatever search engine you want. Even if one isn't in the online gallery, Google claims it only takes about 3 lines of text to create a new button.
I'd love to be able to search IMDB of Gracenote from google toolbar
I find quicksearches much better for specialized searches. I just type "imdb " in the address bar, and hey presto, less clicks than using a toolbar.
In case you don't know about FF quicksearches, you just create a bookmark with e.g. "http://us.imdb.com/find?q=%s" as the location, and "imdb" as the keyword.
Oh no... it's the future.
Oops, that should have read "I just type "imdb ", guess I made an accidental tag.
Oh no... it's the future.
Since when was there a Mac version of Google Toolbar?
Since many moons ago for Mac Firefox users. Why would the official Google Toolbar for Firefox" be unblessed?
Oh no... it's the future.
does anyone actually use these features and log-in to Google.com
/. instead of posting as an AC... your tin foil hat is slipping.
If you use gmail or Google Talk then you're logged in. Some people also use Personal Google which requires you to login to be of any use.
I'm unsure if Google News customization uses cookies or just login. I know it can use login -- if you're logged in then your customizations will be shared to any browser that you login under. I think it used to remember customization by cookies though (and may still if you're not logged in).
I'm not willing to make it any easier for big brother than it already is.
And yet you logged into
I haven't bothered looking at the new toolbar since it's IE only, but one think I've always looked for in "shareable bookmarks" is the ability to partially share -- to either mark some bookmarks as "do not share" or (better) different groupings that can be shared independantly. I know that there's some bookmarks on my home machines that I simply don't want coming anywhere near my work system. Ahem.
The Google Deskbar doesnt work on XP64 for some reason. Even when installing Google Desktop the deskbar option doesn't work.
I guess that's the price to pay to be on the bleeding edge.
I tried adding a custom button for my project and the whole process was quick and easy. Here I have explained what I did. Hope it helps...
fuvoo: watch something
You can :-) With the toolbar installed go to the imdb site. Right click in the sites search field and select generate custom search. You will get a custom button and imdb will be added to the dropdown list of the google search box on the toolbar.
I use the Bookmarks Synchronizer extension. Saves and loads from any FTP.
The funny part is that it let's you do it already. Those "customizable buttons"? You can make them do pretty much whatever you want, URL-wise, including take the text from the search box and insert it into multiple URLs to grab as keywords for searching them.
All it takes is a tiny bit of XML.
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
You can already create buttons that function like those in this toolbar using Firefox. You can also move them up to the menu bar to save space. See the bottom of my tutorial on optimizing Firefox.
I believe you're thinking of the Context Search extension. Very handy.