Find All updated
The Find All Firefox extension has been updated to version 1.1. Significant bug fixes and new features have been included in this release, including:
- Highlighting the search term on the web page is now the default (you can still change it back to select in the options).
- Two Find All searches may now be performed back-to-back (type a phrase in the find field, click Find All, type another phrase in the find field and click Find All again).
- Double-clicking the find bar closes it.
- Added option to have the find bar close button appear on the right side.
- The number of found matches in the find bar status area doesn't disappear until another message replaces it or until another search is done.
- Unclicking the Find All button no longer hides the find bar by default.
- Added option for results list row background color alternation.
- Added option to change font size of results list.
- Pressing Enter in find field activates Find All by default.
-Justin
29-Aug-08
I feel like a kid with a new toy.
You've done an amazing job on the improvements to Find All.
I left a more detailed review on Find All's page on AMO but I wanted to drop by here as well to thank you for your time and efforts that you put into Find ALL.
I didn't mention it on AMO, but you or your users may appreciate a toolbar button that will open up the Find bar. Ctrl+f is ok, but I can click a button faster than I can type so it suits me fine. Others may find a toolbar button to be unnecessary or excessive so I'm not quite sure if you should add one to Find All.
In any event, a good friend of mine (and add-ons developer and code guru) Michael Buckley has a page on his site where you can select various toolbar buttons from a good variety of buttons, and a single installable XPI will be automatically generated and available for download or install into Firefox (or other Mozilla apps).
The reason that I'm telling you this is because perhaps your users would be interested in getting a toolbar button that opens the Find bar, or, if it is something that you think would be a useful addition to Find All, then I'm sure that Michael would be glad to help you out.
Custom Toolbar Buttons Maker
http://codefisher.org/toolbar_button/toolbar_button_maker
Take care and thanks again.
Justin Rodes on 30-Aug-08
@Ken Saunders: Thanks for the review and encouragement. I will check out the toolbar button maker.
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