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Scroll Search Engines
Source code - addons.mozilla.org page - Version history
This was my first extension and is probably my most popular one. It was done as a request for someone on the Mozillazine forums. The extension allows you to change the selected search engine in the search bar by scrolling the mouse. This saves you from having to click the menu, and then click the engine you want to use. It works both when you’re hovering over the search bar, or when you’ve selected a word and right clicked to search the web for it, then you can scroll when you’re hovering over the “Search google for…” menuitem.
Works with: 
Firefox: 2.0b1 – 2.0.0.*
Latest version: 0.5
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This enhanced feature is very useful. thank you.
When you shut the navigation toolbar, I want to use this function.
Please build version for firefox 3.0b4. Your exestion very good, I like it!!!
I like this extension very much! I have one idea for an enhancement, however. At present, it scrolls up and down in a list, stopping at beginning and end. I’d like it to be able to cycle through the list in either direction–that is, to treat the list like a loop, without beginning or end. I use few enough search engines that it wouldn’t take long to roll the mouse wheel to find the one I want. It’s a little frustrating when I scroll and nothing happens, because I’m already at the beginning or end of the list. If the list were a loop I wouldn’t have to think about the direction I scroll. I would simply scroll until I saw the icon I wanted. Actually, I would probably always scroll down; if the list were a loop, I’d still be able to get to the engine I wanted eventually, without hitting the end of the list and having to reverse the scroll.
Thanks!
@Avalon, Walter: I’ll build a version for Firefox 3 when it’s released. Due to the review process at AMO I’m reluctant to build a new version for every beta but I’ll get one out for the actual 3.0 release. And I’ll try to put in an option in it to scroll in a circle.