[Googlebar] Googlebar: feedback from John Woods

[notes at mozdev.org]

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/feedback.html#c111

Erik O.,
I agree personally, and maybe that will be next. What do they call it on fx? There is no way to change that behavior at present. Since firefox has made it an option to choose, that boosts the case to do so for Googlebar. I ventured into mozilla bugs one day and saw huge long bugs discussing a particular keystroke behavior this way or that. I decided to stay away from those kind of 'issues' except for ensuring the choice between a dead hotkey and one that at least toggles :)

Right now the best case is to hit ctrl-F12 (or shift F-12). Usually twice to unselect the text. (I regard this as backwards.) Hotkey Text Selection Toggle must be checked in the preferences.

Rison Rodag,
Should be working as you've come to expect! 

Ollie Cox,
Sorry to hear Google Local was not as global as the rest of Google. That'll give me time to get it working using more of the features. For example, once you get to the Google page, everything is sorted by name. Distance should be the primary, then within each one maybe a name sort. It has a useful tag &radius, I'll try to put to use in later versions. You speak English, it'll be there soon wherever you are!
I'm glad you're happy with the My Country option, ie. it works. :) I am curious to know which is more useful, My Country or google.yourcountry?

MungoBBQ,
It is large on Linux, with really oversize buttons though they look nice, but on all my windows flavors it is a 'normal' sized toolbar. Do you have a different theme than the standard one? The Hide and SHow hotkeys... ctrl-F8(and shift-F8) might help. As for whether our icons are too large, we can do that because we also have a text input box, and if we made our icons smaller... the textbox would still require the same toolbar height. 
I've noticed a big border above and below the textbox on newer firefox. Maybe the switch from Qute has made it even larger? 

jae,
This can happen when you upgrade from 0.7 versions, that had different meanings for the same preference data. If you use the preferences to set things up, they should stay that way. If you never open the preferences panel to set the options... who knows. I've never been afforded that luxury. :)

Lazlo Woodbine,
We used to be installed in a subdirectory, but now the Firefox installation is in a jar file. File a bug and we'll see if we can get it working.
(A custom version of Googlebar eh?) We'll get you running. File a bug.

Scott q,
If you ever get 2 toolbars, you have one in the program folder, and one in the user profile. bug 6494 had the same trouble due to installing the software directly over an older mozilla. No good. Uninstall and delete the files when it asks, if it asks. Re install the browser and it should find the one in your profile already.

(whew!)

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