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July 18, 2003
Googlize your Mozilla
I am open sourcing my Google Toolbar, which was developed at Netscape. It works with Mozilla 1.0-1.4 (NS7.0-7.1), and NOT firebird.
Beta version at http://nexgenmedia.net/google.xpi. It has an uninstaller even :) Be sure to restart the browser after installing it.
Once nice feature is, type something in the search box and ctrl-enter, opens the search results in a new tab.
It behaves and looks like the IE google toolbar.
Posted by doron at July 18, 2003 12:06 PM
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Call me silly - I installed it on 1.4 but I'm not seeing it, nor can I figure out any menu option to see that it's even an option to show.
Guidance?
Posted by: Jess at July 18, 2003 12:31 PM
Disregard my previous post. Restarted all instances of Mozilla and it appeared.
Looks great! The Google bar was one of the main draws for me using IE..
Posted by: Jess at July 18, 2003 12:39 PM
It took me under 5 minutes to modify it to "work" in firebird, so if you have the prerequisite skills, it shouldn't be too difficult for you to hook it up.
If I did more than 30 seconds of testing on it, I'd submit patches.
Posted by: Eric Hodel at July 18, 2003 2:06 PM
Its probably easy to do (change the overlay file to contain browser.xul)
Posted by: Doron at July 18, 2003 2:30 PM
Third time that's happened now... I swear, we need to blackmail/hire a publicist. Greetings from the Googlebar project on mozdev, anyway.
We've been working on a similar idea for a little more than a year and a half, and while for some reason I can't get yours to install onto Moz 1.3/ Win98 right now, I'd be interested in seeing a comparison between the two projects- it might be that we could share code.
If you're interested, post a note to Mozdev bug number 3932, where we're currently discussing things to put in the next version (among other things, including tax law, vacuum cleaners, and where to get a free turkey sandwich: we're very informal). Attached is the newest XPI of our work, so give it a try (the latest attachment is pretty safe) and we'd be glad to hear from you.
Posted by: AndyB at July 20, 2003 11:13 PM