What's new in Googlebar Lite 5.1.3
Dec 29, 2016
- Added a preference for collapsing search words when Googlebar Lite is placed on the nav-bar toolbar (enabled by default). Disable this preference to get the old search word button behavior.
New in Googlebar Lite 4.9.6 (Jan 29, 2013)
- Bug Fix: The news search type should no longer result in a “page not found” error
- Bug Fix: Dragging a link to the search box no longer pastes the URL, but the link text instead
New in Googlebar Lite 4.8.2 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Bug Fix: Extended characters should no longer get corrupted when searching
New in Googlebar Lite 4.8.1 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Bug Fix: Search terms should no longer mysteriously disappear
- Bug Fix: The “Site to Use” menu in the Googlebar Lite options dialog is now initialized properly in Linux
- Bug Fix: Removed several obsolete function calls that were throwing errors after customizing the toolbar
New in Googlebar Lite 4.8.0 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Completely redesigned the options interface and the underlying code
- Added a new option allowing users to disable Google search auto-correct
- Extension options have been moved to the appropriate “extensions.” branch
- Menu items within the up button are no longer updated on every page load, improving performance
- Choices in the search term auto-completion popup menu can now be navigated through with the Tab key
- Several minor performance improvements
- The minimum supported Firefox version has been changed from 2.0 to 3.6
- The maximum supported Firefox version has been changed to 15.*
- Added a Norwegian (nb-NO) localization
- Various locale updates
- Bug Fix: Search terms no longer disappear from the search box when searching over a secure connection
- Bug Fix: Several registered event listeners were not being removed on shutdown
- Bug Fix: Secure searches no longer point to the old “beta” secure search website
- Bug Fix: Corrected a minor bug in the Catalan (ca-AD) locale that affected the Google search site URL
New in Googlebar Lite 4.7.11 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Added google.com.eg to the list of available top-level domains
- The Google dictionary search button and menu item are now disabled when the search box is empty
- AJAX-style queries (on Google search result pages) are now given higher priority than normal GET-style queries
- Updated the menu item label for the translate context menu command
- Converted a few component instances into a lazy-load approach, which should improve startup speeds
- Removed a few unused variables and one unused interface instance
- Bug Fix: Corrected a number of issues with the search term highlighting feature
New in Googlebar Lite 4.7.10 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Altered the Google dictionary search since Google has shut down that dedicated service
- Added google.sk to the list of available top-level domains
- Bug Fix: Corrected an error with the addProgressListener call
- Bug Fix: Reverted a style rule change that caused search word button labels to disappear in some themes
New in Googlebar Lite 4.7.9 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Changed the default keyboard shortcut for setting search box focus to Ctrl+Shift+S (was Ctrl+Shift+K)
- Added support for Firefox 5 and 6
- Added a new Estonian translation (et-EE)
- Various locale updates
- Relaxed the importance of style rules in the Googlebar Lite stylesheet
- Bug Fix: Search terms surrounded by double quotes are now highlighted properly
New in Googlebar Lite 4.7.8 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Replaced Answers.com search type with Google Dictionary (English dictionary only for now)
- Various locale updates
- Bug Fix: Dragging and dropping text should no longer result in duplicated text
- Bug Fix: Fixed broken logic used to show and hide the search word overflow button
- Bug Fix: Improved the logic for displaying toolbar separators.
New in Googlebar Lite 4.7.7 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Bug Fix: Corrected a few parsing issues in the search word button filter which were introduced in 4.7.6.for the pipe character.
New in Googlebar Lite 4.7.6 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Improved styling in a few places.
- Removed the style rules for the Qute and Noia themes.
- Bug Fix: Corrected a resize issue that was causing a phantom chrome element to appear in Firefox 4.
- Bug Fix: URLs passed as a part of several context menu search types are now wrapped in encodeURIComponent() calls, preventing certain URLs from failing to load.
- Bug Fix: Altered the XUL markup around the search box to fix some styling issues.
- Bug Fix: Added several missing search operators to the search word button filter.
- Bug Fix: Search word buttons are no longer created for the pipe character.
New in Googlebar Lite 4.7.5 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Added an option to enable secure search (where possible)
- Gave the "toggle toolbar" button a more descriptive name
- Enabled support for Firefox 4.0.
- Various locale updates
- Bug Fix: Search terms now update properly on secure search result pages
- Bug Fix: Terms appearing in double quotes, which have a minus sign as the first character, are no longer hidden in the search word buttons
New in Googlebar Lite 4.7.4 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Bug Fix: Word search should no longer get stuck when the terms appear in a text edit control
New in Googlebar Lite 4.7.3 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Major code cleanup. The global JavaScript namespace is no longer polluted with all of Googlebar Lite's variable and function names, and code has been made more efficient in some cases
- Bumped the maxVersion to 3.6.* to support Firefox 3.6 builds
- Search terms are now cleared when exiting private browsing mode
- The hidden preference for Google's sandbox search engine has been removed, since Google is no longer offering this sandbox to the public
- Updated the Russian (ru-RU) locale
- Updated the Chinese Traditional (zh-TW) locale
- Updated the Czech (cs-CZ) locale
- Bug Fix: The "single click in search box selects all search terms" option now uses native Firefox functionality, fixing several auto-selection problems in Linux
- Bug Fix: Dragging empty text to the search box no longer causes a blank entry to be added to the search history
- Bug Fix: Dragging text into the search box now opens a new tab if the "open search results in a new tab" and "automatically search on drag and drop" options are both set
- Bug Fix: Search terms are now cleared properly after customizing the Firefox toolbars
New in Googlebar Lite 4.7.2 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Adds two new search types: Product search (formally known as 'Froogle' search), and Finance search.
New in Googlebar Lite 4.7.1 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Support has been added for Google's new Caffeine search engine, via a hidden preference (set "googlebar_lite.use_sandbox" to true in about:config)
- Bug Fix: Drag and drop did not work properly in Firefox 3.5.x
- Bug Fix: The Up button menu now provides the full range of options for https URLs
- Bug Fix: Highlighted search terms should no longer cause unwanted line breaks or font-size changes on certain sites
New in Googlebar Lite 4.6.9 (Nov 24, 2011)
- This release adds support for Firefox 3.5 builds.
New in Googlebar Lite 4.6.8 (Dec 4, 2008)
- Version 4.6.8 fixes a bug where the tool-tip suppression code introduced back in version 4.3 has started to cause problems. Occasionally, Googlebar Lite could cause Firefox menus to stop responding. The problematic code has been removed. A new Polish (pl-PL) localization has also been added.
New in Googlebar Lite 4.6.4 (Nov 28, 2007)
- Bug Fix: In some specific cases, the onLocationChange listener threw uncaught exceptions, causing the forward and back buttons in Firefox to stop functioning.
- New Greek (el-GR) localization.
New in Googlebar Lite 4.5.1 (Jan 5, 2007)
- Bug Fix: Corrections made to the Italian localization (thanks to Vincenzo Reale).