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Suggestions, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:29:49 +0000

OK, I forgot to account for the changes I made to the script, so the makeBar() function is actually around line 325.

Suggestions, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:27:47 +0000

Hi egabrum, Thanks for all the suggestions, I'm working on them right now.

With regards to modifying the built-in engines: if you define a custom engine with the same ID as a built-in one, the custom one will override the built-in one. So you can fairly easily modify the regular engines.

As for the mutli-engines like Google and Amazon its a bit more complicated. After you define a custom engine you'll need to edit the makeBar() function in the script (around line 341) to modify the multi-engine. I'll try to make this process a bit easier since its easy to mess up the script doing this, but its unlikely you'll get a GUI for this in the next release.

Also, I'm not working on a double line bar for the next version, but you can always give the engines shorter names (even the built-in ones). I'll think about this for a future version though.

Hopefully everything else will be included in the next release, and I'll add a couple of the engines from the custom list you posted too.

Vaughan

Custom search engines, replied by egabrum

egabrum — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:50:09 +0000

google100, Google 100, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&num=100
about, About, http://search.about.com/fullsearch.htm?terms=%s
berilium, Berilium, http://www.berilium.es/results.php?mode=ser&query=%s
bigola, Bigola, http://www.bigola.com/search.php?term=%s
collecta, Collecta, http://collecta.com/#q=%s
cuil, Cuil, http://www.cuil.com/search?q=%s
delicious, Delicious, http://delicious.com/search?p=%s
duck, Duck, http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s
facebook, Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=%s
googleblog, G.Blog, http://blogsearch.google.com/?q=%s
globalspec, GlobalSpec, http://search.globalspec.com/Search?query=%s
googlemap, G.Map, http://maps.google.ca/maps?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=%s
rae, RAE, http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=%s
tpb, TPB, http://thepiratebay.org/search/%s
topsy, Topsy, http://topsy.com/s?q=%s
twitter, Twitter, http://twitter.com/#search?q=%s
usniff, uSniff, http://www.usniff.com/q/%s
wolfram, Wolfram, http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%s
wordnik, Wordnik, http://www.wordnik.com/words/%s
wordreference, WordRef, http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=%s

Suggestions, replied by egabrum

egabrum — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:24:39 +0000

Also:

5) The bar does not show on some search engines: delicious, wolframalpha, etc
6) Support for double line bar. I use A LOT of search engines...

Suggestions, replied by egabrum

egabrum — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:08:46 +0000

First of all, this script in GREAT! Thanks.

Here is how I think it could be improved:

1) Change Live for Bing
2) Add context seach for maps (google, bing, ask, etc...)
3) All search engines should be customizable, also the built-in ones. I want to modify those. For example, I want to add Blog Search inside the Google bracket. Or when the config of one of the built-in engines is outdated (e.g. Flixster).
4) Easy way to backup my configuration.

Fluid Support?, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:06:06 +0000

Hmm... I just noticed which script you commented on, I'm so accustomed to the comments being on Facebook Fixer. Did you comment on the right one? Your message seems to fit in very well with Facebook Fixer.

Fluid Support?, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:03:01 +0000

I've never used Fluid (or even seen it) so I'm not sure why it isn't working. Since it uses WebKit, and I'm assuming it has a decent JavaScript engine, my best guesses would be:
1. Some other script or extension is interfering, or:
2. Facebook is serving it a slightly different page cause its not one of the major browsers (Fluid supposedly has a built-in user agent switcher so you can test that theory easily)

If I get a chance to do some testing on a Mac I'll see if I can install Fluid and try it out.

That said, its nice to hear about another browser that Facebook Fixer at least partially runs in :)

Fluid Support?, replied by Adam Kramer

Adam Kramer — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:34:49 +0000

Hi,

I am having a bit of trouble using this script with Fluid; it mostly works, but the right side bar does not hide the highlights section, or the suggestions section properly.

Any idea why this is?

Thanks!
Adam

Unable to change sites., replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:10:47 +0000

Hi nascent, sorry for taking so long to reply.
I checked and its happening to me too... I'll look into it as soon as I can.

Unable to change sites., replied by nascent

nascent — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:48:42 +0000

I tried editing out the yahoo movies flixster and fandango sites as I don't use them (and one doesn't work anymore anyway) but everytime I save the settings nothing changes..

Performance?, replied by vzjrz

vzjrz — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:34:02 +0000

Wow thanks man I really appreciate it. This is now my favorite script thank you very much!

Performance?, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:57:26 +0000

Hi VzjrZ,

I've added it as an option. Just click the '?' to customize and there's a drop-down box letting you select 'top' or 'bottom'. When it's on top it won't stay on the screen when you scroll.

Vaughan

Performance?, replied by vzjrz

vzjrz — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:19:54 +0000

Is there any way to remove the bar from scrolling with the page? Could you make it stick to the top? Every time I scroll down my cpu usage goes all crazy because of this effect.

other than include all?, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:54:05 +0000

Hi Good To Too,

The whole point of the script requires it to run on as many pages as possible so it needs to have the "include *". If I included individual sites the include list would probably be almost as long as the script itself.

However, if you want it to only run on certain sites you can modify the includes after installing it using the "Manage User Scripts" feature in Greasemonkey.

Vaughan

other than include all?, replied by Good To Too

Good To Too — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:44:38 +0000

Is there a less taxing alternative to:

// @include *

Archived Comments, replied by blockx

blockx — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:27:31 +0000

great! can you sort the search by popularity? example: torrent-site, piratebay is the populary, or?

shopping, can you add geizhals.at? (good german price-site)

can you add a function, if the user search for:
moviename torrent
see the user links to search on torrentsites, with the searchsting, but not the word torrent.

and: if the site domain is one of the in the script, hidde from the bar. i hope this is possible.

Archived Comments, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:35:42 +0000

I have made some changes in response to jayleecn's comment however I am unable to test this myself since I only speak English. Any comments relating to the script's support for languages with non-latin/non-roman characters would be greatly appreciated.

Archived Comments, replied by jayleecn

jayleecn — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:31:42 +0000

Hi, maybe you can change "escape" to "encodeURI" and "unescape" to "decodeURI", then this script will work better with some Asian languages, such as Chinese.

Archived Comments, replied by Vaughan Chandler

Vaughan Chandler — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:03:09 +0000

Hi Rolli,

I don't see why it wouldn't work on Google for you. Do you have any other scripts or extensions that affect Google that may be causing it? Have you tried reinstalling the script? Does it work on other Google sites (like google.ca or google.co.uk)?

The link you gave is the same link I use as a shortcut for searching Google and it works fine over here. It even works when I click on your link.

Archived Comments, replied by Rolli

Rolli — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:08:33 +0000

Its a great script and it works fine for all search engines apart for Google for me.
I use http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Why is your script not working on any of my Google search sites?
Do you have an idea?

Archived Comments, replied by Junk Blocker

Junk Blocker — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:26:39 +0000

Thank you for the script. A few small changes I made in my local copy are :

1) Added one conditional for del.icio.us

else if (m=location.href.match(/del.icio.us\/(tag|popular)\/([^\/#\?]+)/)) { q=m[2]; }

2) Added option to close on pages like Google Video where the bar obstructs the controls

d.innerHTML = '<a href="javascript:closeTTSO();">X</a> Find ...

and then towards the end

var s = document.createElement('script');
s.language='javascript';
s.type = 'text/javascript';
s.text = 'function closeTTSO(){try{document.getElementById("mySearcherBar").style.display="none"}catch(e){}}';
head.appendChild(s);

Archived Comments, replied by Luna C

Luna C — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:36:37 +0000

I got an account here just so I could say this script is great!
Thanks for writing it.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:04:55 +0000

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