I’m getting some very good tips from readers of my blog lately, it’s really appreciated. This time it was Dark Kosmos who tipped me of on a new Firefox 3 extension called Awesome Search which adds search to the Awesome Bar in Firefox 3. In case you did not know the Location Bar of Firefox 3 is now called the Awesome Bar. Is that an official term ? I’m not sure about that but it provides by default advanced functionality over the old Firefox 2 location bar.
The new Awesome Bar looks into the history and bookmarks by default when the user begins to type in the first letter of an url. It even remembers previous selections and sorts them accordingly. One thing that is missing though is direct web search from that bar, and that is what Awesome Search provides.
You can enter any term in that bar and the add-on will perform a Google search for that term adding to the results found. Google results will have the Google icon while results from the history or bookmarks will feature a star.
Apparently an Amazon search was also added which I do not find that useful but since it’s version 0.0.1 of the add-on it’s understandable that not all features have been implemented yet.
Dark Kosmos has created a screencast of the bar in action which can be accessed by following this link. I had some troubles getting this add-on to work in Firefox 3 RC1 portable. It did work after disabling the compatibility check. To do that type about:config in the address bar, right-click and select New -> Boolean. Enter extensions.checkCompatibility and select the value false.
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14 Responses to “Add Search to the Awesome Bar in Firefox 3”
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[...] Ghacks uncovered an incredible extension that could very well be the best one ever created. I know, a lot of extensions have passed through the golden gates of the add-ons site, but I don’t think any of them will save me as much time as this one does. [...]
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[...] Via | gHacks [...]
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[...] Awesome Search, which I reviewed two days ago, is probably the best application when it comes to Firefox extensions that display Google search results while still typing the search phrase. I would go that far that it safes a lot of space on the main Firefox toolbar because the search form on the right is superfluous unless you like to search on other search engines using that search form on the right. [...]
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[...] de la mano de gHacks, he descubierto la extensión AwesomeSearch que realiza una búsqueda en Google o Amazon y muestra [...]
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[...] to Firefox 3 RC2. I like the new awesome bar which will make life a lot easier especially with the Awesome Search add-on that I have reviewed earlier this week. rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); [...]
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[...] to recommend a useful Firefox 3 add-on that adds search directly to the location bar in Firefox. Awesome Search is the add-on that does that which in my case made the search form in the main Firefox toolbar [...]
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[...] always possible of course but mostly it is. The add-on is not that useful if you have installed the Searchery add-on as well which displays search results in the menu as well which is extremely hard to [...]
Everyday we find something new about Firefox, Awesome!
I fell unhappy, firefox 3 with firebug crashes so often I can’t use it :(
Waiting for RC2 or final..
Makes me wanted to download it more than ever! :D
http://www.filedropper.com/awesomesearchianloiccom
Here is my remake and what you can see on the screencast :) I’ve removed the blue style and amazon search
I wanted to download awesome search extension,but this amazon search discouraged me
download my modified version above :O
FYI, this extension is now called Searchery, and is available here : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7615