[Googlebar] Googlebar: feedback from John Woods

[notes at mozdev.org]

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/feedback.html#c147

Lazlo,
There's a bright side somewhere... might take a few years to find it but... :)

xmut,
I don't think there was a google in China, when we made that feature available but... waddya know, there is now! www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/ Is that what you mean? They still don't have a news.google.com/intl/zh-CN/ yet. But I just put in the search using the My Country and My Language which has both, Google searches restricted to site just in China, and pages that are in 2 different 'dialects' maybe. Set the options in the "New additions" options panel and then use the My Country button. I'll see about getting it in regular searches soon. 

Mark,
> If your graphics guy is going to update the logo,

I don't know which one you have, but there is an updated icon, the Earth with the magnifying glass. (They are new buttons and so they probably haven't found a final resting place on the bar.) You can move yours though. Right click on the toolbar, and select "Lock Button positions" so it is unchecked. Drag and drop them the way you want. Then Lock them again. 
The neat thing about the Special Searches is, well any of the Combo Buttons... which the Google Searches is the only group that doesn't have this feature... you can use them without promoting them to the toolbar full time.

RD,
I'll bet your localstore.rdf file is breaking something, or is broken itself. Try creating a new Mozilla profile, and install the Googlebar to that. If that works your old profile has probably seen too many Mozilla upgrades :) You can try renaming the localstore.rdf file to something close when Mozilla is not running. It will create a new one when you start it up again. Be sure quicklaunch is not running when you do that. If that does not work, uninstall mozilla, and delete files when it asks, then reinstall mozilla.

Stormy,
We do have a translate to English item, both in the context menu, and a regular button on the Toolbar, in the Page Info group. You want a different language maybe?

The version is currently 0.9.0.24 for XPI-rimental and XPI-firefox. To be on the safe side, on Firefox - uninstall Googlebar first, then reinstall. You won't lose your settings. 

If you install over an existing Googlebar, on Firefox 0.9.0, you will lose not only your Googlebar settings... but your whole profile. (This hopefully won't be required in the future after 1.0, and shouldn't be required after installing 0.9.0.23 or later versions)

Try entering some urls into the search criteria box. 
mailto: irc: www. and some others

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