Google Firefox Toolbar Out Of Beta 181
wellington map writes "Google has released Firefox search toolbar (Version 1.0.20050923) after two months in beta. One interesting addition is Google Suggest, which guesses what you're typing and offers useful suggestions in real time."
Worth noting.. (Score:5, Informative)
Not for Deer Park (Score:5, Informative)
"I already have googlesearch in Firefox" (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Wait.. (Score:5, Informative)
The new Google toolbar is neat, but it can't compete with the open source Googlebar (which Google, to their credit, offers a link to on the Google toolbar download page). Many more features like the use of Google Maps, and so forth.
The difference is so great that my browsing is significantly less efficient when browsing at someone else's computer, even if they're using Firefox.
Re:The browser should be functional (Score:3, Informative)
I prefer to develop using the Mozilla Suite (aka Seamonkey) or FireFox. I very rarely have more than one browser window open - I just Ctrl Tab though the tabs. This is not slow at all.
I have the Tidy plugin at the bottom right of the browser informing me of W3C code validity. MSIE can't do this. In my experience, Mozilla crashes no more than MSIE (about once every 2 weeks for me).
If you want to force Mozilla based browsers to download files every time, type about:config into the address bar. Then find browser.cache.check_doc_frequency and set it to 1 (it defaults to 3)
As a developer, in my dev environments I ensure that every page is set to expire immediately in the request header. (I have never had cache-related bugs from either MSIE or Mozilla.)
I have never had downtime due to "crashes and cache-related bugs". Maybe I'm just lucky?
Google suggest isn't new (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Does it block popups? (Score:1, Informative)
IE is preloaded in memory, mozilla seamonkey too (Score:2, Informative)
I know what you mean (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Shame it doesn't work with 1.5.. (Score:5, Informative)
To modify install.rdf do the following
1. Close Firefox
2. Open %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
3. Delete extensions.rdf
4. Go to the extensions folder.
5. Now you'll have to go to every folder there and edit its install.rdf file with a texteditor such as notepad.
6. You will see something like this:
CODE Change maxVersion to 1.4, save the install.rdf.
Re:Shame it doesn't work with 1.5.. (Score:5, Informative)
~jeff
Up to date libraries (Score:3, Informative)
That is called the Linux Standard Base, to which about all commercial and several non commercial linux distributors adhere to. So, if it is LSB compatible (would be a handy note from google), it will run on Redhat, but also on Debian, SuSE, mandrake and many others.
Re:Why RedHat only? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Shame it doesn't work with 1.5.. (Score:1, Informative)
2) Open the
3) Edit "install.rdf" in your Notepad-style text editor.
4) Look for this:
5) Change the valor "1.0+" to "2.0+" or so (it must target your firefox number version (1.5 or whatever)).
6) Save the changes.
7) Install the extension (Ctrl+O and choose the "google-toolbar.xpi" already downloaded in your PC and just changed)
Hope this works. Cheers.
Spell Check (Score:5, Informative)
I realize now that there are probably many other firefox extentions out there with spell check, but the first one I came across and used was in the google toolbar.
I currently use it with Gentoo and on some firefox releases I had some trouble with the toolbar crashing/hanging as well as the spell check correction box appearing half way down the page. I am anxious to try out this new release and see if a lot of these issue have been solved.
Slow script warning (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Wait.. (Score:3, Informative)
Googlebar [mozdev.org]
Re:"I already have googlesearch in Firefox" (Score:1, Informative)
This has been a standard part of the firefox context-menu for years... (as has the google search box, and the keyword search)
Re:Shame it doesn't work with 1.5.. (Score:3, Informative)
Virtual +1 informative to parent, this tool is a blessing (even though it's nout enough for some extensions) for anyone using 1.5 beta of the 1.6 dev versions
Re:Spell Check (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Shame it doesn't work with 1.5.. (Score:4, Informative)
Ouch. Careful there. You should back up your profile [axlotl.net] before mucking around in that XML. Also, the entire proposed solution sounds a little drastic. If you can download the
Re:Silly Speed Fetishes (Score:3, Informative)
And NOT using PDF is not a viable solution to most people.
Re:Spell Check (Score:3, Informative)
Take a look at this screenshot [halo43.com]