Comments on: 10 Ways to Power Up Your Firefox Search

By: nik

nik — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:18:13 +0000

oh … and thank you for your tips!

By: nik

nik — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:17:13 +0000

To hide the search bar set display to “none” instead of “hidden”.

/*right:*/
#search-container {
display: none;
}

/*wrong:*/
#search-container {
display: hidden;
}

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By: Pete Warden

Pete Warden — Sat, 26 May 2007 21:34:22 +0000

PeteSearch is another Firefox extension designed to speed up searching. It checks all the results to make sure they still exist, and have the right terms on them (to avoid cloaked sites), gives you a split-screen preview with the terms highlighted, and adds new hot-keys for moving around the results.

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By: Al

Al — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:59:03 +0000

Try out Searchbar Autosizer if you want your searchbar to automatically expand as you type text into it. When you're not doing anything, the searchbar shrinks back to a specified size. It beats messing with the userChrome.css file.

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GigaOM » What's on GigaNET — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:37:03 +0000

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By: Anne Zelenka

Anne Zelenka — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:08:23 +0000

Casey: Firefox gives an error if define: or site: is used first (at least for me). I can use the site: operator in the location bar only if I put it after the search terms. The define: operator is problematic since it’s the only thing I’d put into the search… so using the Location Bar doesn’t work for that. Although I could just use the google keyword first, that’d be a way around it.

Paul: thanks for the tip on using Customize to move the search bar or remove it entirely. Didn’t know you could do that. Searchbar Autosizer looks nice too.

By: Paul Glover

Paul Glover — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:49:36 +0000

I’ve been using the searchbar autosizer extension for a good while now. Leaves the searchbar small and unobtrusive, but allows it to expand up to a user-defined maximum as you type into it.

While the search bar has focus, using Alt-Up or Alt-Down pulls up the selection menu with all the installed search engines. Navigate up and down with arrow keys, hit enter to select.

Also, if you right click on the toolbars and select “Customize…” you can move the search bar around or remove it entirely, without needing to edit any chrome.

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By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:47:45 +0000

This is a pretty good summary of the search features Firefox provides. For my browsing needs, the location bar is the only function I use. I have no problems whatsoever with Google operators like “site:”

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:39:56 +0000

Great article: I thought I was pretty good at using Google and Firefox, and I learned several tips I had never known before. The right click on a search box is very useful.