[Googlebar] Googlebar: feedback from Joshua Estell

[notes at mozdev.org]

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/feedback.html#c300

First of all, I wanna say that I  am always quite lost when I haveto use a browser without the Googlebar,  so I try to keep those instances to a bare minimum. I use it on both Linux (FC2, Slack) and Windows, and it has a wealth of functionality that, as 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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