Googlebar Lite's main toolbar item can be moved to the new menu panel in Firefox 29. This should either:

1. not be possible
2. provide very limited web search-only support

I'm not sure which is preferable.

Toolbar separators need a way to be hidden, seeing as Firefox is distancing itself from that design mechanic.

Hi.

I miss a lot Google cache button. So after click it will open new tab with cache of page in current tab, ex. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.borngeek.com/firefox/

Thanks for your great work so far.

When the main Googlebar Lite toolbar item is moved into the toolbar palette, the icon displays incorrectly. CSS needs to be fixed to correct this.

User Serbhan writes:

When both auto-completion and inline completion are enabled, search for try these search terms. Now clear edit box and type try followed by two spaces. Then >> shows up, followed by try these search terms. Pressing enter will search for the whole thing, including >>.

This is likely a bug down in the Firefox core, but it's worth investigating.

Personally I would like to have direct links to Google Drive and Google calendar - and a number of existing links are not interesting for me at all. So I guess a nice feature would be customizeable links or maybe have a more complete list of Google links in the preferences to en/disable with check boxes?!

Greetings from Germany!

A button to translate the current tab might be useful.

There are too many reports of problems with the HTTPS Everywhere extension, so secure searches should become the default. It's a good idea anyways, and it's what Google now defaults to.

Hi,

do you plan to support FF v57 and up?

If the Googlebar Lite toolbar is on the nav-bar, search words are enabled, and enough search words are entered, the entire toolbar will overflow, with no way to get back. The main item should have the "overflows" attribute set to false.

There are so many Googlebar Lite options these days, that offering a way to export / import them would be beneficial. I really hate having to tweak the settings I want every time I set up a new Firefox profile.

From user Rob Morlund:

I live in the UK and the feature I miss most about the full Google toolbar is that in the dropdown search list it has an option to search for pages in a country only, in my case the UK. I use this all the time when I'm looking to buy something so I don't get results from all over the world.

If the Googlebar Lite toolbar is placed on the nav-bar, the search word area should have a fixed width size. This would solve the "dynamic sizing" issues inherent with this scenario, and would solve #15 also.

I think it would be best if the overflow button were always shown in this scenario, given that search terms will likely overflow more regularly than when the toolbar is on its own line.

When the toolbar uses large icons, the search box is too tall visually.

Google Maps classic is no longer. 😭

As such, the option to force maps search to use the classic interface no longer works. This option should be converted to use the "lite" option instead.

For some reason, in the latest versions of Firefox, the find bar appears when using the word search functionality. That shouldn't be the case.

This is a better way to handle the "gripper-gate" issue from 4.9.12.

I'm currently using the dg=optperm parameter for the classic maps option, but that results in the "thanks for trying the new Google Maps" dialog each time. I believe if I use dg=oo instead, that little box won't always appear and we'll still get the classic interface.

This is the number 1 feature request, so it might as well be the first issue in honor of that distinction.

hi,

what i see in firefox 52:

• amount of history entries is a lot smaller
• "recommendations" is placed wrongly, and also has the wrong font size.

thanks. :)

FF upgrade itself to 45.0b2, after that the keyword highlight stops working.

I-Hsuan

From Ralf:

One minor glitch: when this option is enabled, you add this string: &output=classic&dg=optperm
This works fine unless the maps-button is used just to launch Google Maps without a specific search. Then this leads to an URL like https://maps.google.de/&output=classic&dg=optperm which gives a 404 error. That's because there are no parameters in this URL but the first parameter of an URL has to be appended with "?", not with "&".

So I think this could work if you leave it like it is now but append ?output=classic&dg=optperm instead when there's nothing entered in the search box.

I've gotten several reports of broken image search for some users. I'm guessing it's an interaction with HTTPS Everywhere. Fixing issue #10 should also correct this one.

Note that I am accepting pull requests for this.

Multi-process Firefox is coming. I need to investigate how this impacts Googlebar Lite (it almost certainly will). I'm guessing search words will be broken (both highlighting and search). I'm not sure what else might be affected, however. Perhaps some of the context menus will be affected?

Relevant links:

• Electrolysis - MozillaWiki
• Working with multiprocess Firefox - Mozilla | MDN

After the latest upgrade to 5.1, the search words shown on the toolbar are grouped under a drop-down even when there is plenty of space for them. Previously they were directly clickable (as shown in the screenshot on your site http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/googlebarlite/).

I notice the change history for this release says

Search words are now grouped together under one toolbar button when Googlebar Lite is placed on the nav-bar

So it's possible it's a deliberate change?? But it seems to make the feature much harder to use which is a shame.

User Steve Coolen writes in:

Is there any way you could make Googlebar delete the text from the search box when the specific tab that spawned that text is deleted? Also, how about more closely keeping track of which tabs are using which keywords, etc.? The way the toolbar handles the search box text is nice in some ways and endlessly frustrating in others. I will be happy to explain them if you are genuinely interested.

Since Firefox now considers the chrome a part of each tab, the search words function should be a per-tab setting. Keeping track of this information could be very difficult, however, seeing as we'd have to store info for tabs recently closed.

A few other notes:

• An option to have the legacy behavior would be necessary
• An option to clear the search terms when a tab is closed would be helpful (though this could be mitigated by the fact that switching to a tab with no previous search would auto-clear things)

Ever since the update to FF29, which prompted me to install ClassicThemeRestorer, GoogleBarLite no longer searches for the string in the GBL text box. Instead, it searches for whatever was the last item in Google's search history. That is to say, if I searched for "foo bar" directly from Google's web interface and then, in that tab or a new one, enter "blah blah" in GBL's text box and either hit or click the GBL "Search Web" button, Google's search page will show up with results for "foo bar". This is persistent across restarts and occurs with GBL 5.0.0.

Using the cygwin zip tool the way I have been doing screws up file permissions within the .xpi. Changing to an alternate packaging tool (7zip) will fix this.

I'm sure the error I stumbled upon in CoLT is present in Googlebar Lite also:

Child dialogs currently load a second instance of the main js file when they open. This duplicates the entire object, and causes a few errors to be thrown in the browser console due to missing window elements.

Moving common code into a JavaScript module is the right way to do things.

AS of now, other icons which are dragged to GBL toolbar (for example FF built-in Find icon) are attached with text even if the checkbox is un-ticked.
BTW - I think from version 29 Fireox removed the option to attach text-labels to its toolbars.

Edit:
To reproduce this situation open a new FF profile (In my old/main FF profile the checkbox does work on non-GBL icons)

TIA.

Sometimes immediately after customizing the toolbars GBL's search bar stops working (a simple search ignores the search words and google search suggestions suddenly won't show up).
Tested on both a clean FF 52 ESR profile and a clean Basilisk 2018.04.24 profile.
After a browser restart everything is OK.

I succeeded to reproduce this bug at least 10 times.
Thanks in advance.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a fresh/new FF profile.
2. Google.com > Search Settings (preferences) > Where results open > Open each selected result in a new browser window (tab)
3. Install Googlebar Lite 5.0.2.
4. Search : Googlebar Lite

Now, in google's search results page if you click on the "Googlebar Lite :: Add-ons for Firefox - Mozilla Add-ons" hyperlink a new tab on addons.mozilla.org will be opened and the toolbar's "search words" are gone.

No problems clicking on other hyperlinks like borngeek.com/firefox/googlebarlite/
Also no problems if the checkbox in step (2) is unchecked.

TIA.

FF32
Win 7

The search suggest feature is broken in Firefox 31 for some reason. It worked in Firefox 30.

User Chris writes in:

Love the search bar, very handy indeed. I just wanted to know if it was possible to disable the Shift+Enter and the Ctrl+Enter key shortcuts? Or if it was possible to program them to do a simple Google search instead of site search etc.

Supplying an option to disable these shortcuts would be helpful. At the very least, having the "regular" search appear in the list would also work.

This might require rolling a new edit control. The textbox element in XUL doesn't seem to offer any good sort mechanisms.

The search box looks clunky in Linux, and could use some help. Moving to OS-specific style sheets would really help with this.

From user Ralf:

Just an idea for Googlebar Lite: how about an option to use Google maps classic in the maps search?

The regular maps search of Googlebar Lite produces links like
https://www.google.de/maps?q=London&ie=UTF-8

On computers that are way to slow for the new Google maps it is necessary to opt out each time after using Googlebar Lite's maps search. This could be avoided by passing this in the first place via URL:
https://www.google.de/maps?q=London&ie=UTF-8&output=classic&dg=optperm

It just refreshes Google page without query the new search words.

If a given term is searched twice, it gets added to the search history twice. I can't seem to get it to appear three times, but the duplication is coming from somewhere.

I only use Firefox built-in search bar, and it does not seem to cause any issue for the Googlebar features I use: word highlight and search.

Hence my request: add an option to hide the Googlebar search bar.

I've been using a unsigned, self-supported version of the old googlebar for years now, but its code is so old that it will never be signed by Mozilla, and hence can no longer be used. I'm switching to Googlebar Lite now, which is excellent! The one additional feature I'd dearly love is to be able to use googlebar's Ctrl-F12 shortcut to put focus on the search bar.

Could the Keyboard Shortcuts section be modified to allow the use the F-keys as valid selectors? I would be willing to sponsor this coding change if need be. Thank you.