It looks like Mozilla is making small changes to prepare for the upcoming Visual Refresh in Firefox 2. The image on the side shows that Mozilla removed the drop-down list from the magnifying glass and put it on the icon instead. If you click on the magnifying glass without entering in any text it will simply take you to the search engine’s homepage.
If you look at the Visual Refresh image you can notice that this is the way they had planned to do it:
I actually prefer having the drop-down list of available search engines on the magnifying glass but I am sure Mozilla knows what they are doing. The only thing I wish they did was make it easy to temporarily select a search engine. I always want Google to be my default search engine but sometimes I want to do one search somewhere else. My preference would be that if a user Ctrl-clicks on a search engine then it will reset itself to the default once the search has been completed. Just a thought though.
Sorry, Ryan, I like the change. I find it irritating with drop down beside the magnifier. Maybe I’m just a stick in the mud. I do wish they would make the search & navigation boxes re-sizable.
Ed, I am sure the reason I like it the way it was is because I got use to having the drop-down menu on the magnifying glass for all of the other builds.
I definitely agree with you that the search and navigation boxes should be resizable but they aren’t
. There is, however, an extension available so that you can resize the search box: [xeen.reversestudios.com]
-Ryan
There is also an extension (Add On) called, ta da, Resize Search Box. Or there\’s this: [tinyurl.com]
or there is this cool link: [tinyurl.com]
Those are some good links Ed. I think I heard that the Resize Search Box extension doesn’t work with Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 though, but I haven’t tried it.
-Ryan
I did & it doesn’t:~ )
hello Ryan,
i think you ment that in all the builds of firefox 2, the drop down was on the magnifying glass. but in firefox 1.X, it was on the icon of the search engine.
when i installed firefox 2b, it was very annoying to find out they switched it (especialy when you now have the option of rearranging them). so maybe this is why the changed it to be like in Firefox 1.X.
Doron.
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