Firefox 2.0

[AlanYork]

Can anyone tell me how to disable the "popular search suggestion" feature in the Google toolbar when using Firefox 2.0?

It was easy in IE, just click on the downward arrow near the G, go to Manage > Features > Search Box Settings and take the tick out of Suggest Popular Searches and voila! However, clicking on the downward arrow in Firefox doesn't bring up a Manage option.

When trying to solve the problem I did find this on Google's site, under the heading "Toolbar for Firefox Helpcentre"......

If you'd like to disable Google Suggest in the Google Toolbar, please follow the instructions below:

1. Click the "Options" button on your Toolbar.
2. Select the "Search" tab.
3. Un-check the box next to "Show popular queries as you type."

Please note that Google Suggest is separate from the Toolbar's drop-down search history feature. For Firefox users, the Toolbar's search history can be viewed by clicking the drop-down button in the Toolbar's search box. For more information on disabling the Toolbar's drop-down search history feature, please visit http://www.google.com/support/firefo...y?answer=45143

But I don't see an "Options" button on my toolbar apart from if I click on Tools. Then the only choices after clicking Options are General, Privacy, Content, Tabs, Downloads and Advanced. None of these are relevant.

I certainly didn't see a drop down button for the search history either. In IE yes, but in Firefox the only drop down button there is just gives you a choice of more search engines.

In fact all that advice only seems to apply to the Google toolbar in IE.

Am I missing something here?

[Janusian]

Lifted from here

The Location Bar, the Search Bar and some form fields on web pages have autocomplete dropdowns that appear with a list of previously-entered data. You can disable the display of autocomplete entries by editing your configuration files as described below.
Note that this method does not actually delete the internal lists of previously-entered data; it merely prevents their display. Location Bar autocomplete is an integral part of the History mechanism in Firefox: its data is stored in the history.dat file, and persists for the same duration as History items. Currently the only way to fully disable Location Bar autocomplete is to disable History. This can be done by setting the number of days of saved history to zero.
The method below has some problems. It will cause some errors appear in the JavaScript Console if you have chrome errors enabled, and in some circumstances it may cause the browser to malfunction.
In userChrome.css, add the following lines:
/* Remove autocomplete dropdown */
#PopupAutoComplete > .autocomplete-tree { display: none !important; }
If you also want to remove the dropdown button at the far right of the Location Bar, add the following line:
.autocomplete-history-dropmarker { display: none !important; }
You may also want to enable inline autocomplete.

[AlanYork]

Thanks Janusian. It looks like I might just have to live with it as I like to keep my history for 5 days.

Nice to see an "unfashionable" club like Reading FC doing so well by the way. The monopoly of Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal is just downright dull and is killing interest in the game. I'm a York City man myself.

Regards
Alan

[Druchii]

Originally Posted by AlanYork

Thanks Janusian. It looks like I might just have to live with it as I like to keep my history for 5 days.

Nice to see an "unfashionable" club like Reading FC doing so well by the way. The monopoly of Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal is just downright dull and is killing interest in the game. I'm a York City man myself.

Regards
Alan

Alan, could i ask of your last name? In a PM if that's ok. The way you type makes me think i know you from somewhere...

[Pia]

Originally Posted by Druchii

Alan, could i ask of your last name? In a PM if that's ok. The way you type makes me think i know you from somewhere...

Maybe it's York

[Druchii]

Originally Posted by Pia

Maybe it's York

Nah, i'm pretty sure that's the area where he lives.

[Janusian]

Originally Posted by AlanYork

Thanks Janusian. It looks like I might just have to live with it as I like to keep my history for 5 days.

Nice to see an "unfashionable" club like Reading FC doing so well by the way. The monopoly of Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal is just downright dull and is killing interest in the game. I'm a York City man myself.

Regards
Alan

You may want to head over to the Firefox developer forums and suggest this as an enhancement. That is the great thing about open source.

It is happy days at Reading, we will certainly enjoy it whilst it lasts. Being a York fan you must remember Graeme Murty, our Captain Marvel.

[Pia]

Originally Posted by Druchii

Nah, i'm pretty sure that's the area where he lives.

Ooooh right yeah, i see the football comment now heheh

[AlanYork]

Yes, I like Graham Murty. He was asked on Match Of The Day about his time at York City and appeared to snigger. When he later realised that it had come across in a way that he hadn't intended, he had the grace to apologise and explain that he was only sniggering about how long ago it was and did not mean to disrespect us. Fair play to him for that.

Yes, York is the area where I live, not my surname. Druchii I don't think we know each other, I am 24 years older than you and have only ever visited Doncaster once in my life. No disrespect but before I send you my surname could you tell me where you think you know me from first?

I will check the developers forum out, thanks.

[MikeyB]

Originally Posted by AlanYork

But I don't see an "Options" button on my toolbar apart from if I click on Tools. Then the only choices after clicking Options are General, Privacy, Content, Tabs, Downloads and Advanced. None of these are relevant.

Hi,

Do you mean you don't see an Options button in the FF Google Toolbar?
Try clicking on the Google logo in the toolbar, I get an Options menu item.
In there I see a "Suggest popular queries as you type.", it could be this you are after.

Cheers
Mike

[Theodoric]

Having just jumped all the way from 1.0.4 to 2.0, I've spent quite a few hours tailoring it to the way I want it. Along the way, 2 things I found that may be useful to others are:

1) Try as I might I could not get the online spell checker to work. Finally, as an inspired guess, I downloaded the English dictionary extension and, lo and behold, it now worked.

2) The mail icon is missing (well, it is for me). A bit of searching led me to this extension which seems to do the trick.

[Theodoric]

And one further little tip that I have just discovered. There are a number of Extensions (Translate and PrintIt! in my case) that haven't been updated for Firefox 2.0 and so won't install. A possible way round this, which may work, is to right click on the Install icon and use the save the link command which will save an xpi file. Rename this as a zip file and extract the rdf file inside it. Open this file in Notebook and change the Firefox version info to 2.0 or greater. Save the edited file, drag it back into the zip file and rename the latter as xpi. Open this by right clicking and using Firefox which should install the Extension. It did seem to work in my 2 cases.

[Mal]

Originally Posted by Theodoric

And one further little tip that I have just discovered. There are a number of Extensions (Translate and PrintIt! in my case) that haven't been updated for Firefox 2.0 and so won't install. A possible way round this, which may work, is to right click on the Install icon and use the save the link command which will save an xpi file. Rename this as a zip file and extract the rdf file inside it. Open this file in Notebook and change the Firefox version info to 2.0 or greater. Save the edited file, drag it back into the zip file and rename the latter as xpi. Open this by right clicking and using Firefox which should install the Extension. It did seem to work in my 2 cases.

...or you could just install this extension, which will do all that for you

When the install dialogue appears, there will a checkbox there to make the extension compatible during installation.

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by Mal

...or you could just install this extension, which will do all that for you

When the install dialogue appears, there will a checkbox there to make the extension compatible during installation.

Thanks. Anything to make life easier. I've still got a couple of extensions to sort out.