Scroll Search Engines Versions

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Version 1.0 - May 23, 2008

This version adds Firefox 3.0 compatibility, the extension no longer supports 2.* versions. The new feature in this version is that you are now able to scroll in a loop instead of stopping at the first and last engine. This is set by going to about:config and setting ‘extensions.scrollsearchengines.loopscroll’ to true. I ditched Firefox 2.0 compatibility in this version because the searchbar code is a bit different and I don’t have time to figure out how to add the loopscroll to Fx 2. For Fx 2 users you can still get version 0.5 in the old versions page.

Version 0.5 - March 19, 2007

This is a total rewrite that should fix incompatibilites with all menu and toolbar manipulation addons. Should now work with MenuEdit, MenuManipulator, Browster and DragNDrop toolbars.

Version 0.4.4 - December 2, 2006

Another fix for Browster compatibility. It turns out that if you don’t show the Browster toolbar (which is completely unneccessary since it only shows the same search box as the searchbar) then the function BrowserSearch.getSearchbar() doesn’t work anymore. So I added a fix for that. The Scroll Search Engines code is now roughly 50% actual scrolling code and 50 % compatibility fix code!

Version 0.4.3 - November 30, 2006

Small update to fix incompatibility with the Browster extension. The scroll over the searchbar stopped working when Browster was installed and only worked on Browsters own toolbar (since they used the same id as the original searchbar). The scroll will now work on the original searchbar as well as Browsters.

Version 0.4.2 - November 20, 2006

This version is to fix an incompatibility with the Menu Editor extension (http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/710). The incompatility was caused by a known bug in Mozilla where nodes that are moved lose all their event handlers. Now you should be able to change your context menu with Menu Editor and still be able to scroll in the context menu. However, you’ll need to restart Firefox after changing your menu in order to get Scroll Search Engines to start working again. This shouldn’t be much of a problem, unless you’re changing your context menu all the time, which I suspect most people don’t do.

Version 0.4.1 - November 4, 2006

This changes back to pre-0.4 functionality where 1 scroll event == one search engine. In 0.4 I tried to take into account the magnitude of the scroll, i.e. if I got the scroll value 3 then I moved to the next one, if I got 6 then I moved down 2 engines, but this seems to cause problems for people because of different scroll wheel settings. So I’ve moved back to each scroll event only changing to the next search engine, not trying to calculate how far down the list we should go.

Version 0.4 - November 3, 2006

Now it’s also possible to scroll when you’ve selected a word and are searching for it with the context menu. Assuming you have Google selected as search engine and have highlighted the word “monkey” on a webpage, you can now rightclick, move your mouse over ‘Search Google for “monkey”‘ and then scroll and you’ll change which engine will be used for the search.

Version 0.3.1 - November 1, 2006

This is just to fix the supported Firefox version numbers. 1.5 should never have been supported, this is strictly for 2.0 and newer.

Version 0.2 - November 1, 2006

Note: These version numbers are incorrect. This only works with Firefox 2.0.* . I’ve uploaded a new version, 0.3 which has the correct version numbers and it’s pending approval.