Go button for search box on Firefox

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I would like a Go button for search box on Firefox. I know I can press enter
but I am a mouse addict...

anyone knows of an extension for this?

Thanks
 
I would like a Go button for search box on Firefox. I know I can press
enter but I am a mouse addict...
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Doesn't make sense to use a button. You've just typed the search words,
and the Enter key is right there under your little finger, and not a
foot away where the mouse is. Press Enter.
anyone knows of an extension for this?
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Haven't heard of one.
 
Awwww...... I really didnt mean my bad cruel words towards firefox.
Its a good browser... and it has microsoft start working on IE again.

But you have to know that what FF is now, Opera was years ago.

Opera was the first that had tabs, and many other innovations.

How did Firefox become so popular then? Well people never liked the opera
interface since it was a bit strange, and it had a banner for the free
version...
and then there were the devoted netscape fans. They had to choose between
netscape who had become a monster and mozilla.. who was dinosoaur, but still
a monster. Then popped up Firefox out of the mozilla teams.

Its approach? Simplicity and expandability.

So the older netscape fans jumped on it, and the new generation of MS haters
jumped to it, and the people afraid of viruses jumped to it.

In my opinion Opera lost a great opportunity to get a big share of the
market.
Had it made the shift to true freeware before firefox was out, and fixed its
interface a bit.. it would have had a big portion of the market.

Firefox extensions have the culprint of breaking when you updates.. and the
themes too.. thats a problem...

I would like to know if that was a microsoft idea.. how would the users
respond??? They would rant away on endless blog pages!

Since you are a big fan of firefox, you should look into these 2 if you dont
already know them:

FireFox preloader
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/

Seamonkey (the new name of the mozilla suite)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Kenny
 
the problem is that my movements are automated... I use avantbrowser as my
main browser, and that has a search button.
Its no big deal... I can adjust.. I was just asking..
 
kenny said:
Opera was the first that had tabs,
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I don't have the inclination to bother with the rest of your, um,
interesting take on the history of browsers.

But Opera did not have tabbed browsing until three years after
Netcaptor did. Mozilla got the feature a few months before Opera
did, earlier if you count Mozilla with the MultiZilla extension.

Before they added tabbed browsing, Opera did have an MDI which I like,
but calling it tabbed browsing would be a huge stretch.
 
Thanks for the shift click tip...

I saw a problem in the icon layout in the custom window after installing
.....
 
kenny said:
I think you are wrong. Opera was the first browser with tabs

http://nontroppo.org/wiki/OperaInnovations
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Opera 1 only had the MDI I already mentioned. Tabbed browsing came
with Opera 6. (Also, couldn't you find something other than an Opera
wiki to use as an authority?)
Please post proof to the opposite
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<http://www.answers.com/topic/tabbed-document-interface>

This page regards Opera 4's MDI tabbed browsing, with which I disagree,
but still makes it very clear that you are wrong about Opera being the
first.
 
Opera 1 only had the MDI I already mentioned. Tabbed browsing came
with Opera 6. (Also, couldn't you find something other than an Opera
wiki to use as an authority?)


<http://www.answers.com/topic/tabbed-document-interface>

This page regards Opera 4's MDI tabbed browsing, with which I disagree,
but still makes it very clear that you are wrong about Opera being the
first.
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http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wa_browser_mult.htm

says:

"Tabbed History. The first browser to offer tabbed browsing was
InternetWorks, developed by Booklink Inc., and winner of the Comdex
show's Rookie of the Year Award in 1994. The program was renamed GNNworks
the following year when it was bought by AOL and incorporated in their
online client. (The same development team then went on to develop AOL's
Instant Messenger application.)

The next known browser with what it called "dynamic browser tabs" was
Simulbrowse, now called NetCaptor, released by Adam Stiles on January 3,
1998, followed by Opera V4 in 2000 (Opera had earlier introduced the
multiple document interface enabling cascading and tiling of browser
windows). For some reason Internet Explorer and other browsers did not
immediately appreciate this innovation, and the next known browser to
offer tabbed browsing was Mozilla in 2003, followed by Apple's Safari.
However, once it became a discriminator, everyone had to have it, and by
2005 most browsers supported tabbed windows of some kind.

(Please let the author of this site know if you know of other early
browsers before 2000 that support tabbed browsing.)"
 
kenny said:
Had it made the shift to true freeware before firefox was out, and
fixed its interface a bit.. it would have had a big portion of the
market.
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I doubt it. I simply don't like Opera, and I see similar comments all over
Usenet. It's not a likeable browser. It's obtuse and non user friendly.
Firefox is extrememly likeable, and once you get used to all the things you
can do with it using extensions, you're hooked.
 
Yes... Opera had it before Mozilla....

I was sure about this.

I was not aware of that other browser "internetWorks" mentioned.

I was aware of netcaptor... however wasnt netcaptor just a shell for IE?

Thanks
 
http://www.netcaptor.com/download.php

NetCaptor requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0+ to be installed on the
computer. NetCaptor runs under Windows 98, NT4, ME, 2000 and XP and requires
that IE is installed (though you don't have to use it).

That means that Netcaptor is not a real full fledged browser.... its a shell
 

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