Discussion on Google Search Sidebar - Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, Flickr, and Youtube Results | Userscripts.org

google.ca/#hl=en WORKAROUND, replied by hondro

hondro — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:30:20 +0000

Found out that it will work with firefoxe's default homepage (google.com/firefox). I just recently started programming so maybe I'm completely off here, but it seems like there should be a way to make what's typed into google's homepage go through the google search bar on the side, like a filter or something that whatever you type into googles homepage is sent to the searchbar on the side without the user knowing and then the results are displayed.

Shorten script's name please, replied by chris2006

chris2006 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:55:21 +0000

When I do a right-click on the Greasemonkey icon in the status bar, it's annoying to see your script taking up a loooooooooong line of space:

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/269/longname...

This is in fact so annoying that I'll uninstall it until it's fixed. Because for Google search, I have many scripts that I turn on and of for different purposes. I don't like a scrambled menu like this, just because of such a long name.

Please, just name it short and simple "Google Search Sidebar".

google.ca/#hl=en WORKAROUND, replied by chris2006

chris2006 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:46:45 +0000

I have the same problem. Also other Google scripts don't work because of the URL changing after running a search. Google is annoying ^^

For example, I ran a search for the word "table" from my FF search box, then the sidebar shows up. Running the same search from Google's homepage, makes the sidebar not work, because the URL changes to:

http://www.google.de/webhp?hl=de#hl=de&q=table&...

And clicking on Google's logo to go back to the start page, brings me to:

http://www.google.de/webhp?hl=de and not just google.de

Running another search then, brings this URL:
http://www.google.de/webhp?hl=de#hl=de&source=h...

and sidebar doesn't work :-(

But it works great when running all searches from FF's search box. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a hassle not being able to run the next search from the results page then. I hope developers find a way to handle those URLs.

Thanks for your work though, I appreciate it.

google.ca/#hl=en WORKAROUND, replied by Kyle Day

Kyle Day — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:04:51 +0000

I haven't updated this script in the while, but I have tried to make the #hl pages work, but no success. I think Greasemonkey has a bug where it doesn't like the "#" symbol in the URL.

google.ca/#hl=en WORKAROUND, replied by Jar.1977

Jar.1977 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:33:08 +0000

-=The quick version:=-

Do your search, click images, click web, POOF, Google Search Sidebar works.

-=Long version.=-

I go to google.ca

I perform a search. Note the address bar contents after I click Search.

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&safe=off&q=userscri...

Now I click Images (or anything else) on the upper left. URL changes to:

http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&safe=off&q...

See the /images? now? I click on Web which is clickable now. The URL reads:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=us...

Now we've got "/search?", and Google Search Sidebar performs as expected.

Enjoy!

Not working...is this why?, replied by gabedibble

gabedibble — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:05:47 +0000

I don't know Richard, but maybe I can help you.

I am using XP with FF3.5.3 and it's still working for me (as of 2009 10 12 @ 10am.)
Maybe something is corrupted. You could try Uninstalling (with associated preferences) and then reinstalling.

I'm not the script's author, but I stopped in to see what was new and noticed your post, and consequently thought your problem was quite strange.

BTW - To Kyle: I really like this script; always many thanks to you!

Not working...is this why?, replied by Richard Wilkinson

Richard Wilkinson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:54:48 +0000

I cant get this to work on google.com, it seem evertime i search google uses anything but <www.google.com/search?*>, right now its using <www.google.com/#hl=>, is this why its not working? can you help me fix this problem?

thanks

International pages, replied by gabedibble

gabedibble — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:28:33 +0000

I've seen the same problem.

After poking around a bit, it doesn't seem to be getting the query, but it's strange because the there IS an INPUT within #sft. Well if you can figure it out, we would be grateful.

Thanks for your time!

Works w/ google black script, replied by gabedibble

gabedibble — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:49:47 +0000

I further-added support for Google Search Sidebar by adding what I call Adaptive Resolution Support.
With web search results, google Enhanced BLACK widens the results & tries to use as much horizontal space as possible while leaving space on the right for this Sidebar-script. This does require, however, that the sidebar be installed first (then the google-black script second ~ so my script can detect the inserted sidebar before making its enhancements.) It's a really nice feature, but now I need to figure out how I can detect another userscript, other than detecting their after-effects.

Kyle, can you think of any clever ways to tell if your script has been installed? Maybe some sort of GM_ command? Any ideas would be helpful.

Thanks again for all your hard work; I for one greatly appreciate it

International pages, replied by x0rnn

x0rnn — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:23:44 +0000

The script seems to have stopped working on international Google pages.

They started using #hl=*&q=* instead of search?* for the search query.

For example:
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=test
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=test

The second link works, the first one doesn't.

Could you look into it? Thanks.

Works w/ google black script, replied by gabedibble

gabedibble — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:11:47 +0000

Kyle,
Thanks for the recent updates that fixed dictionary & youtube!

I wanted to give you a heads up that I [gladly] link to your script as a partner to my own script google Enhanced BLACK. (It inverts the color scheme for eye strain and improves usability on Google services.)

Google Search Sidebar recommended and compatible with this script
(Shown in screen shot above along right side of web search preview)

Thanks for keeping up with your excellent script
Msg me if you'd be interested in adding a few functions to have auto script updates.
Best regards, Gabe D

google.ca, replied by Kyle Day

Kyle Day — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:14:12 +0000

I've been adding includes for every country, however, my script isn't working as it should. Once I figure everything out, I will roll out the update.

google.ca, replied by Graziano

Graziano — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:50:00 +0000

and other countries. I just added google.ca manually and it seems to work, but tbh a lot of people wouldn't even know how to do that so it wouldn't be a bad idea to include it by default.

Wolfram Alpha support, replied by ams_0

ams_0 — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:23:38 +0000

enough said

Archived Comments, replied by dieslowly

dieslowly — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:25:22 +0000

Firstly, great script but I have a slight bug...

I'm not 100% sure which script I should leave this comment on but there's a bit of incompatibility between your script and googlemonkeyr. I have googlemonkeyr display the search results in two columns but for some reason the first column gets squashed half of the second column is hid underneath what I can only imagine is white space padding from your search sidebar despite there being ample room for both to fit on screen

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Does that look like something you would be able to fix or should I take the query to the googlemonkeyr page?

I'm using Firefox 3 on the UK localisation of google by the way.

Thanks.

Archived Comments, replied by a0peter

a0peter — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:32:41 +0000

Sweet! How did I survive without this gem!?

Archived Comments, replied by fusen

fusen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:04:26 +0000

oh man! thanks so much for updating this ;D

Archived Comments, replied by gabedibble

gabedibble — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:32:38 +0000

Thank you for the suggestions to my script [Google i&Search Dark + Enhancements http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12917] --- I appreciate it! I did just that and it looks great. Thank you for also updating your script, I've really missed it! Best regards, GD

Archived Comments, replied by Kyle Day

Kyle Day — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:57:13 +0000

Script should now work with Firefox 3. Not tested with previous versions of Firefox.

Archived Comments, replied by Yuri Accioly

Yuri Accioly — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:26:43 +0000

Please update the script! my favorite script is no longer working.

Archived Comments, replied by NickyP

NickyP — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:47:02 +0000

Stopped working with Firefox 2.0.0.14 on my Vista-32bit machine. Any ideas?

Archived Comments, replied by fusen

fusen — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:29:08 +0000

I'd love it if this could be updated to work in firefox 3, thanks

Archived Comments, replied by a0peter

a0peter — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:55:31 +0000

This doesn't seem to work with the version intended for Firefox 3. Any one know how to fix it?

Archived Comments, replied by PeterVk

PeterVk — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:16:33 +0000

This is my fav script! But, like ollieg said, doesn't work with GreaseKit (for Safari). Any one know how to make it so?

Archived Comments, replied by ollieg

ollieg — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:48:06 +0000

Looks awesome but also doesn't work for me with Safari and Greasekit on OS X 10.4.11