September 9, 2004

More on Firefox Toolbar: Toolbar Overflow Bug

I was going to publish my personal toolbar arrangement just to show you how different it is compared to my default proposal yesterday, but instead it became very obvious that there's a regression in recent Firefox builds that makes the toolbar overflow chevron appear when resizing the window. I'm using the latest branch build. Take a look at this screenshot:

I haven't really had time to catch up on all the filed firefox bugs so I haven't reported this in Bugzilla. Does anyone know if this one is already reported?

Update: It's bug 174390, targetted at Firefox 1.0.

Posted by djst at September 9, 2004 6:04 PM
Comments

I think I filed a bug on this a while back. Don't know if it the same problem you are describing, but it prevented me from aranging BTF the way I wanted without producing those two little arrows, and it pinpoints the regression down to the day.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251659

Posted by: berkut at September 9, 2004 11:17 AM

so, where do you have the search bar in there? or you go to google?

Posted by: kwanbis at September 9, 2004 5:51 PM

I don't need the search bar. I've never found a real use for it, since I only use two search engines. I mainly use Google.com to search (although I could just as well use the address bar for that, since I've set it up to perform a standard google search instead of I'm Feeling Lucky).

The other search engine I use is dictionary.dom. For that, I use bookmark keywords for other search engines. For example, I can type "word dilettanteism" to lookup dictionary.com for the word dilettanteism.

Oh, and I use the bookmark keyword "bug" for Bugzilla too. Bookmark keywords rule!

Posted by: David Tenser at September 9, 2004 5:57 PM

"since I've set it up to perform a standard google search instead of I'm Feeling Lucky"

that is nice ... how did you do it?

Posted by: kwanbis at September 9, 2004 7:27 PM

kwanbis,

Just saw this at http://www.squarefree.com/archives/000570.html and thought of you :-)

"By default, Firefox uses "I'm Feeling Lucky" for non-URLs typed into its address bar. You can change the behavior by going to about:config and setting keyword.URL to the appropriate URL."

I'm Feeling Lucky http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&btnI=&q=
Browse By Name http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
Google search http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=

Posted by: stuartd at September 9, 2004 8:44 PM

How did you set up the dictionary.com bookmark to immediately perform the search? I'm sure I'm just overlooking how this is done.

Posted by: Nicholai at September 9, 2004 9:15 PM

exelent! thnks

Posted by: kwanbis at September 9, 2004 9:25 PM

Woo, I'm not alone on this. I worked around it by placing a flexible space right after my Bookmark Toolbar Items, which seems to set everything back into order.

Posted by: hao2lian at September 9, 2004 10:09 PM

i honestly don't care for google--too many ads, or searches that turn up stores and more ads. why decide for everyone what their favorite search engine will be? dogpile is superior, anyway

Posted by: jason baron at September 9, 2004 10:56 PM

"How did you set up the dictionary.com bookmark to immediately perform the search?"

See:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html
http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/bookmarks/
http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/keyword_searching.html

Basically, in the specially formed bookmark, you add a keyword you want to use. The URLs explain it better.

Posted by: Chris Vance at September 10, 2004 1:34 AM

I use the Compact Menu extension to collapse the File, Edit, etc menus into a single icon. This gives me the URLbar, search bar and compact menu icon on one line, and the bookmarks toolbar on the second.

Posted by: Eric Hodel at September 10, 2004 7:05 PM