Searching in Firefox
Google has released a Googlebar for Firefox.
I suppose this might be a good introduction to the proposal I submitted to Google's Summer of Code. One of MozDev's requested projects was a "LiveSearch" extension for Firefox -- a doodad that would allow users to receive results from their search engine of choice as they type. (Many people seem to mistake Google Suggest for a livesearch. It's actually an autocomplete, since it's suggesting terms you might mean to search for, rather than returning results, but the interface is similar to what's usually used for livesearch on websites.)
My proposal wasn't accepted (drat!), but when writing it up I'd constructed a simplistic proof-of-concept extension that the reviewers could take a look at if they chose. I can't say I'm as enamored of XUL as Google engineers seem to be, but since I went ahead and put the effort into the mockup, I figure I'll keep hacking away at it, SoC sponsorship or not.
Right at the moment I'm alternately questioning the UI approach I took with the mockup (which seems to work fairly well for people who've tried the extension but annoys me with its lack of conformity to standards), trying to figure out why Firefox does such goofy things with the styling when I add more information to the result buttons, and wishing I'd retrieved some baking powder from Nicole this morning so I could be making a blueberry buckle right now.
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