Noticed that Version 1.0 of FireFox was released today. The GoogleBar extension is not yet ready though…
One thing fixed that I like is that the bookmarks now work properly.
will have to keep checking for the Googlebar extension though… I use that a lot.
i have been using the preview 1.0 vers,and the google bar in the top right hand window works ok for me
or am i missing something?
i like it 
The googlebar adds the quick buttons for Web, News, Groups and Images along with some others. I use the groups, Images and News a lot. Allows you to type in what you want, and hit Images for example and go directly to Images matching that query rather than hitting Enter and having to then reselect Images again. I also like the Highlight button.
On a large webpage full of text, you can enter in just what you are looking for in the google bar and hit the Yellow marker and it will go through the entire page and highlite what you entered into the bar. Make finding thing on a page faster.
Why doesn’t firefox remember the position on the original page if you follow a link from that page, and then go back - which often lands you at the top of the original page? For example, this is the local paper comics page http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/comics/ scroll down to Dilbert (hey, don’t we all?), click on it, laugh (usually) and then hit the back button. In IE you are back where you left off, but Firefox you are back to the top of the page.
This is a longtime bug. It is annoying, I do not know why they do not fix it. If you are interested, the details are here:
Thanks, that’s interesting. Over a year old. I particularly like the comment “What’s sure is the Mozilla.org pages are best viewed in IE”. For some reason I run into a lot of pages that suffer from this bug. I’ve really tried hard to make FF my primary, but until this is fixed it isn’t going to happen.
I went ahead and upgraded from .9 to 1.0 today. They have released a version of the google toolbar (same one that worked pre ver 1) that does work with version 1.
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=47
It is still not quite as good as the google tool bar for explorer, but it will do…
this is kinda of off topic, but i have a few problems with firefox aka firebird aka sunbird aka 1,000 other names
I have always used mozilla (for the last several years), and i have tried to use firefox, but there are just little things that bug me.
1)There seems to be a lack of control you have. Even IE has more control than firefox. You can’t manually (maybe by messing with a text config file or something) change things like what applications open for certain extensions.
2)Firefox’s download manger doesn’t show where the download went. You can open the folder containing it. Mozilla displays where the download is at
3) Firefox’s seperate google search bar. With mozilla (and IE too I think) you can type something in, then tab, enter and you do a google search right from the url bar.
or maybe i am crazy :roll:
This screenshot may answer some of your questions.
[quote]2)Firefox’s download manger doesn’t show where the download went.
You can either tell firefox to always save downloads to the same place (in which case you know where they are because you set that option) or it will ask each time it downloads a file.it just seems that firefox knows where the file is at, why could it just display it. also mozilla tells you things like what the url was too
I think that the bottom dialogue takes care of this to a certain degree, as it allows plug-ins to be added/subtracted. What type of files are you having a problem with, and what actions would you like to perform on them?firefox doesn't have a central place. the first time you encounter a file type it will ask you what program to open it with. then you choose "always use this" or "always ask". like above, I don't see why they can't have a entire preference menu option set to that
Hope some of this is helpfull.yes, very. i wasn't really expecting any responses :lol: