[Googlebar] search highlighting awkward

[Joshua Estell]

   First of all, I wanna say that I  am always quite lost when I have
to use a browser without the Googlebar,  so I try to keep those
iinstrances to a bare minimum. I use it on both Linux (FC2, Slack) and
Windows, and it has a wealth of functionality that, Ias I said before,
I cannot live without.

   My problem stems from the search highlight function - every time I
highlight a page, and then forget to click off the highlight feature
to start another, the googlebar attempts to run a highlight search on
the entire page, for each string that it sees, and it completely bogs
the program down for a good 10 seconds.

Any ideas on how I can prevent this?  

  If so,  a point in the right direction would be appreciated.

  If not -- I was wondering if you guys were considering throwing in
an automatic "hightlight off" feature that activates when one modifies
the search string?   Perhaps the details of such a feature are
prohibitive, but I think it would improve the searching experience.

 This might seem to be  knitpickery, but I do at least 50 Google
searches on an average day, so this  issue pops up frequently.

Thanks in advance!

Joshua Estell 
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