One thing crossed my mind though: this way you’re doing tons of searches on Amazon/Google automatically, even when you don’t need/want to. This could have some privacy implications. It would be nice if we could activate this extension by starting with a keyword, e.g. “AS search this”.

Already on top of it… I decided to pickup the extension since the developer isn’t responding. But shhh… don’t tell anyone.

I’m planning on releasing something in the next week or two. As it stands right now I’ve got an entire keyword system in place (along with some preferences) so that you can specify keywords that will search specific sites. It still uses Google search to do this, but it works pretty well. For example, you can set the keyword “w” to only show results from Wikipedia. Right now I’ve got the entire keyword system implemented (you can add/remove as many keywords as you want), and it currently shows 8 results (instead of 4). That’s the maximum for the Google search API, but I know a way around so that I can extend it even more.

I just want to get some options in there that will make it more usable before I start letting anyone test it. And it will be called “CyberSearch” in case you’re wondering.

Oh, and I removed the Amazon functionality. I figured that could always be added back by using a keyword if someone really wanted it. I’m not going to try and make money off the affiliates like the original developer did.

Did I just say all that out loud?

Maybe you should backup your profile and try starting fresh if you really want to get this to work. Definitely sounds like some kind of conflict.

Yeah, maybe I should because it works fine at work. I already uninstalled/reinstalled and disabled most other extensions (at least the ones I don’t use at work) to see if that would fix it.. I think I’ll try again and start fresh once Fx3 final is released.

One thing crossed my mind though: this way you’re doing tons of searches on Amazon/Google automatically, even when you don’t need/want to. This could have some privacy implications. It would be nice if we could activate this extension by starting with a keyword, e.g. “AS search this”.

Ryan wrote:

Really? It still works great for me. Have you tried typing in some obscure query that definitely won’t match anything in your history?

Yup, for instance, I just tried “site:cybernetnews.com firefox” but nothing came back. Tried it on two different PCs, the 2nd didn’t have many extensions installed. Only manage to get Amazon results still Strange that it still works for you.. I wonder what it could be..

Maybe you should backup your profile and try starting fresh if you really want to get this to work. Definitely sounds like some kind of conflict.

Thanks! I was actually thinking about diving into it on my own to try and get the keyword functionality that I described above. That way you wouldn’t actually have to implement the Wikipedia API since you could just use the “site:en.wikipedia.org” functionality of the Google search results. It will basically return the same thing.

Anonymous wrote:

Creator isn’t responding but I’ve already managed to tweaked the javascript. I think all we need is to suppress the history list is in the css and adding searches is in javascript. I’ve already managed to remove amazon search from it (lol amazon) and adding wikipedia + changing the blue style into normal url bar style.
(btw I’m the guy who sent martin the addon)

That’s awesome that you got Wikipedia in there. Maybe you can pickup the project.

Actually wikipedia didn’t work as planned, api is driving me crazy . If you guys want I’ve a copy with amazon search removed and blue style fixed

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Really? It still works great for me. Have you tried typing in some obscure query that definitely won’t match anything in your history?

Yup, for instance, I just tried “site:cybernetnews.com firefox” but nothing came back. Tried it on two different PCs, the 2nd didn’t have many extensions installed. Only manage to get Amazon results still Strange that it still works for you.. I wonder what it could be..

It doesn’t work with Firefox 3 RC1

Works fine for me. Maybe you have a conflicting extension.

Yeah, I emailed the developer about being able to adjust the positioning, and also about the number of results. Still haven’t heard back from him though.

Yeah, it’s pretty crazy how useful this actually is. It would be awesome if in the next release of Firefox Mozilla incorporated something like this.

Really? It still works great for me. Have you tried typing in some obscure query that definitely won’t match anything in your history?

I agree that a search provider selection would be great, as I do not always use the same one, sometime I need to use a local one, or a different one. But this is only a matter of offering a selection, and parsing search results, which are likely to be sent in a different format.

Great work !!!!!!!