blog: xplorer2 internet search toolbar

[nikos]

here's the comment area for today's blog post found at
http://zabkat.com/blog/01Feb09-xplorer2 ... search.htm
not your average junk toolbar!

[RickyF]

I started playing with the xplorer2 toolbar in Firefox this morning. You might consider adding the "preferences" features from the Google search page, particularly:

• 1. SafeSearch Filtering (Do not filter my results, etc.)
  2. Number of Results (I prefer 100 items on the SERP)
  3. Results Window (Open search results in a new browser window)

These three items are automatic changes I always make when I set up a new Firefox installation for myself or an adult client.

[dunno]

thanks but no thanks, I prefer using my open browser for searches, and if I want to check my mail I use outlook which is configured to grab ALL third party email, send and recieve, also having a clean and minimalistic x2 toolbar is important for a non power user like me. So many features, too little time to get to know them all, plus ofcourse altzheimers which plays a huge role, but only if I forget to take my morning coffee  :D but...how do you maximise earnings from your app without alienating users, that is indeed a difficult task.

[RickyF]

I have installed the toolbar in Firefox on XP, Vista, Windows 7, and OS X (Leopard). The drop down control next to the highlight icon does not appear on any version. You show it in your demo. Should this appear?

[nikos]

so how do you get hotmail and yahoo email in outlook? (I mean the normal web-based email)

The drop down control next to the highlight icon does not appear on any version

which firefox version do you have?

[RickyF]

Firefox 3.0.5 (the latest version on all platforms)

[RickyF]

Quote:
The drop down control next to the highlight icon does not appear on any vers

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so how do you get hotmail and yahoo email in outlook? (I mean the normal web-based email)

I think we are talking about different things. The Wink demo showed a count of the hightlighted items. Firefox does not.

I do get hotmail (and live.com) in Outlook using the free Microsoft Outlook Connector - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlo ... 81033.aspx.

There is a free tool YPOPS that lets you get Yahoo mail in an email client. (I do not use it but I used to.)

[nikos]

the email question was for dunno

anyway I just installed firefox 3 and i can see what you mean about the drop-down. It looks that the firefox version works differently, like google toolbar before v5: each keyword gets a button added to the right, you can click those to find a particular search term in the page, eg



this method is not very space efficient but it works along the same lines as with the IE toolbar version that I discussed in the blog article

[AKAJohnDoe]

As long as there is an option to not install the toolbar presented during installation, I see nothing upsetting about packaging these into free software.

[nikos]

btw does anybody have any problems with the email notifier?

[RickyF]

This thing was making Firefox squirrely so I uninstalled it but it remains as the default search engine when I type something (not an URL) in the Awesome bar. Any ideas anyone on how to really remove this thing from Firefox?

[RickyF]

Figured it out.

Searched for search.conduit.com in Firefox's about:config and reset each entry to its default. That cleared this up.

[nikos]

what was wrong with the toolbar in firefox?

[RickyF]

Some pages were freezing when loading. I have quite a few add-ons loaded in Firefox so there may have been a conflict with one of them.

[nikos]

are you sure it is x2 toolbar to blame? i was thinking that a possible suspect is the feature that automatically puts text you have selected on a webpage in the toolbar search box. You can turn it off from toolbar options (additional settings page)