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I released a beta version tonight, and will hopefully be releasing a stable version this weekend, or early next week.

Sorry, Almost all the comments on my scripts are for the same script, so I sometimes forget to check which script we're talking about :)

I've been wanting to do a new release for this script for a while now, but I never seem to get enough time to work on it, especially since the new version is almost a complete rewrite.

The new version isn't really usable in its current state, so I'll try my best to work on it over the next couple weeks and release something by Aug 22nd, even if its just a beta release. (Don't worry, I marked the 22nd on my calendar, so I should remember)

I'll see if I can get those into the next version, but no promises. Either way, if I get the next version working as planned you will be able to create your own categories for sites.

Alright, well I missed my deadline by a little bit, but I have put up a test version of Try This Search On (use that link because its not on this site yet). It is still extremely incomplete and I would advise anybody who is considering installing it to read the information on the download page first and then decide if they still want to go ahead.

As the download page mentions I don't need any feedback on the config screen because I already know its incomplete, but please let me know if the script is not detecting searches on any sites (include a sample URL for me).

On the bright side, now that I have that code up it should encourage me to work on the script more. I'm going to aim for a stable release by the end of September or early October, but I expect that the test version should be reasonably complete within the next week or two.

For those who are interested there is a new beta of Try This Search On version available here. Among other changes, this version has a lot more of the config screen usable now, and also adds an import/export feature. I still have a fair amount to do before I make a stable release though.

Thanks for the feedback. I've fixed search detection on Yahoo, so it will be working in the next beta.

I released another beta version tonight. Most of the functionality in the version on this site should now be in the beta, plus several new features. I'm still looking at a stable release by the end of the month, or early October, and I'll probably make at least one more beta release before that.

@copota - Yes, having the bar present on Wikipedia articles is intentional. The idea is that you can easily search for more information on whatever topic you're reading about. This actually happens with several other sites as well, such as imdb and last.fm.
Right now I don't plan on adding an option to disable that functionality. I'd suggest you either try out the new auto-hide feature in tonight's beta release, or disable the script on Wikipedia articles - this can be done through Greasemonkey's "Manage User Scripts" or by modifying the "excludedSites" variables in the script. In a future version I'll be allowing customization of the excludedSides variable from the config screen (the variable is actually a regular expression so you can configure it to still allow actual searches on Wikipedia to be detected).

Yes, the small transparent bar is intentional, so its easy to tell that the bar is present on the page. Of course having it completely hidden makes sense too. I'll modify the script to support both auto-hide modes.

I'll look into the issue with adding engines.

Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for the heads up.