Update: I’ve fixed this bug, and it will be in the next release (among other bug fixes and features). I plan on publishing it tomorrow or Tuesday. Thanks again for the screencast… it helped a lot.

x wrote:

If you enable ‘Dont perform a search without keyword..’ then when entering text in address bar, the “Loading..” icon in favicon area stays there forever.

I’m having a hard time duplicating that bug. What operating system are you using?

Windows XP SP3. here is a little video of the bug- [fileupyours.com]

Fantastic that you’ve found the time to create this extension! Installing right away

The problem was once I got into writing the extension I really got into it. So I didn’t really find time to work on it… I more or less made time to work on it.

01. I would like to see a separate field for keyword and keyword name,
a lot of people just use one letter for there keywords (i.e. w = wikipedia, i = imdb, g = google, etc.)

But using these for the keywords names could you confusing, so a system such as Keyword = W, Keyword Name = Wikipedia would be perfect.

I thought about that as well, and that’s why the drop-down menu shows the URL(s) that are associated with the keyword. I didn’t want to clutter the interface by adding another field for a name.

That could be possible, but it likely won’t work as people would expect. Current keywords in the browser often look like [en.wikipedia.org] , and with this I would have to trim off everything except the domain. That wouldn’t always work for some sites that aren’t located at the root of the domain.

I’ll look into whether I can override that extension’s icon picking.

If you press enter without selecting any of the results the browser will perform a search just as it would if the extension was not installed. That’s why a search for “goog cybernetnews” was done.

There is no way for us to handle keyword searches since we use Google for doing our searches, and Firefox itself uses a site’s built-in search capabilities. The official launch article that we posted this morning kinda explains that because we didn’t want to interfere with the keyword searches that people have already created.

I’m having a hard time duplicating that bug. What operating system are you using?

Took me a few minutes to find it since you didn’t specify where the typo was, but I’m guessing you’re referring to the misspelling of “maximum” in the help box?

A feature request: there should be a Google Web Search without “I’m feeling lucky” option at the search services.

Anyway it looks promising.

There are a few recommendations I would like to make though,

01. I would like to see a separate field for keyword and keyword name,
a lot of people just use one letter for there keywords (i.e. w = wikipedia, i = imdb, g = google, etc.)

But using these for the keywords names could you confusing, so a system such as Keyword = W, Keyword Name = Wikipedia would be perfect.

02. The option to import your already saved search keywords. I currently have 68 keyword searches (yes, I am a junkie) and it would be nice to be able to import them.

03. Another cool add-on for Firefox, the Awesomer Bar ([addons.mozilla.org]), add the functionality to show the favicon for your keyword searches in the normal favicon spot, unfortunately this extension seems to overide it though.

So it would be really nice to either add this feature to this extension or, make it so that the two extensions play nice together.

I could see this extension being one of my must haves for firefox