Open tumpio opened 8 years ago
Hello tumpio, thanks for your response. To your questions on my user review:
I'm also interested to hear why the Quick Search Bar add-on was pulled out? And was it still working in the latest Firefox?
No, the Quick Search Bar extention did not work with the new Firefox Search Bar anymore, even using the Classic Theme Restorer-restored Search Bar. I presume that the developer found this to be one Firefox change too far. It might also be related to the upcoming deprecation of XUL, but I am only guessing: http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-changes-firefox-apis-developers-unhappy/
Anyhow, I found the Quick Search Bar add-on to be extremely helpful and still think that this is the way the Search Bar should work. Instead of "move mouse and select" -> "type" -> "move mouse and select", searches would just become "move mouse and select" -> "type", which is substantially easier. I do have a FEBE dump of the Quick Search Bar xpi if this would help.
Used to love that extension back in the good ol' days.. Eventually I wanted a lighter experience on firefox and I stopped using extensions for a long, long time. A couple of years later I wanted a cleanest experience on firefox and that awesome search bar extension cross around my mind but I forgot the name of it “Quick Search Bar”.. I kept searching between addons for that extension but never saw it again. Recently I came across gnomon's review in your extension post and that lead me to here. Wow, it was great extension, very clean, effective and user friendly.. Is a waste that end it up nowhere, was one the best functionalities on firefox back then. I don't know what the heck are thinking ff developers, that addon was gold, they should have implemented into firefox since it's release. Anyways.. It would be awesome if you recreate it's original functionality like gnomon said.
Hello @VulkHead
There are two major problems:
The latter could be easily fixed by providing some compenstaion for the work required.
A feature request from user review:
This feature request consists of two separate tasks:
Both requires a setting to let the user choose between the old and new behaviour.
List of other features of the Quick Search Bar add-on: