Kevin O'Gorman schreef: > On 9/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Session Saver, and the modular search engine bar, are such good >> features, which I find so essential, that Firefox would have to get >> a whole lot closer to unuseable than this before I'd consider >> giving it up. > > I'm sure this is <OT>, so just send a pointer if you like, and I'll > stop. But... > > This is great! I haven't paid much attention to FF/TB extensions up > to now because the few I tried early on got obsolete and/or didn't > work well. I should have known that things would get better, and they > did -- with ratings and other info about versions. So I got > SessionSaver, and when I restart I'll probably fall in love. > > But: what's the modular search thingie?
Click on the "G" in your search bar, you'll get a drop-down list of other search engines that you can use to search for whatever you're searching for. Installed by default are Google, ebay, Amazon.com, Creative Commons, and Yahoo. But there's also a "Add More Engines...." which will take you to mozdev.org where you can install as many search engines as you like. I have about 40 or more, including Gentoo Packages (searches packages.gentoo.org) Gentoo Forums Gentoo Wiki Gentoo Bugzilla (by summary) Gentoo Bugzilla (by bug #) and Gentoo-Portage, as well as Google Linux (which I made default over 'plain' Google); it's a special Google search amongst Linux oriented sites. So all I have to do is click the icon and change my search engine to search where I actually need to search (dictionaries, Gentoo-related sites, shopping-related sites, whatever) rather than having to filter all the irrelevant general Google responses to something like 'fbsplash gentoo' when all I need to know is the link to the 'How-To fbsplash' entry in the Wiki (and of course, if I change my engine to the Wiki, I only have to search 'fbsplash' rather than 'fbsplash gentoo'). I also discovered that if you change at least to packages.gentoo.org (but this probably works for any of the engines) and just hit enter without putting anything in the search box, it takes me to the front page of the online package database, so I don't have to bookmark it or type it everytime I want to go there. Anyway we had a whole discussion about how to add search engines to Google; check the archives for the "[OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola" thread, post by me explaining how to set up additional search engines, on 11 August 2005. > Moreover: what would you suggest for backups/sharing of bookmarks? > For control of popups/ads and script vulnerabilities? I just installed the Bookmark Backup extension today (since we were talking about Extensions, I remembered that I hadn't checked if any were updated lately). Turns out it not only will backup your bookmarks, but all the 'important' items in your profile folder, as many or as few as you choose, to a location of your choosing as well. I also noticed that there seems to be an Adblock extension for Firefox; I only noticed it because my boyfriend just started using that for Mozilla under Windows. But while I was installing a couple of other extensions (upgrading Session Saver, Bookmark Backup), I also installed Tab Mix Plus, which, as it turns out, is not only for allowing you to manage tabs (drag and move, etc), but also seems to have session saving and undo close tab capabilities, as well as many settings to further refine popup blocking behaviour (which I didn't investigate much as yet). > > Surely there's a list somewhere for asking these things? Well, of course there's MozillaZine (http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/index.php?c=4 ), but extensions are easily available, firstly via the link in your Extensions Manager (which goes to Mozilla Update at https://addons.mozilla.org/ ). I also sometimes still drop by the old Extensions Room site (which was where we got our extensions before Mozilla Update was implemented), though it's a bit out of date at times : http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/ . And for the newest and latest extensions that haven't made it to Mozilla Update yet, I've been using The Extensions Mirror for quite some time (http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?act=idx ); I started using it when it was the place that people put updated extensions that worked under 0.9.x but had broken under the 1.0 previews, solely because the version number in the extension header (which specifies what version of FF the extension may be installed under) had not been changed. So that's where people put the 'fixed' versions. But now it's huge, with updated extensions, and variations on extensions that people have written. Great site (although you'll have to authorize the site in Firefox to be able to install any extensions from it). Anyway, hope that helps. I do love Firefox very much, it works quite well and is very extensible. But it is starting to get some of the bloat of its ancestry, with this memory thing. Perhaps the rush of updates after 1.0 was released and brought this sudden popularity has been a bit too headlong. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
