[Companion] Suggestions: "Hide the search button" and "Add Yahoo bookmark"?

[Dave Viner]

when i click the magnifying glass, the search box
hides.

isn't that what you want?

dave

--- Rich  Hutchinson <richhutch at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Actually, my thought was the option of 'hiding' the
> search box, as Firefox 
> has a dedicated search box. That would free up some
> room for more buttons. 
> Not that big a deal though, really :)
> 
> Rich
> 
> At 07:04 PM 10/7/2004, Peter Burgner wrote:
> 
> >As much as I agree that y! bookmarks is one of the
> coolest features and 
> >the toolbar might take up to much space for just
> that, I don't think we 
> >should change this projects purpose. But if
> somebody wants to create 
> >seperate project and use some of the toolbar's code
> I think that would be 
> >perfectly fine ... (Around Google there are also
> quite a lot of projects, 
> >e.g. just having gmail notifier etc.)
> >
> >Rich Hutchinson wrote:
> >>At 03:10 PM 10/6/2004, Bob Rowlands wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>--- Brian
> <mailto:mozdev at bkennelly.net><mozdev at bkennelly.net>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > John Straffin wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > > Hello,
> >>> > >
> >>> > > I'm really not that much of a Yahoo user,
> but I've
> >>> > always
> >>> > > liked the 'mobile bookmarks' aspect of their
> toolbar.
> >>> > That's
> >>> > > really the only thing I *do* use, however,
> and I find
> >>> > that
> >>> > > the search bar (for me) simply takes up
> space and
> >>> > distracts
> >>> > > from the rest of the browser -- I'd love to
> "Hide the
> >>> > Search
> >>> > > Button".
> >>> > Does anyone else think we should hide the
> Search button
> >>> > when we
> >>> > hide the text box?  It would be simple to
> implement.
> >>>
> >>>Yes, definitely!
> >>
> >>Aye, I'd like that too. With the built in search
> field in Firefox the 
> >>space it takes up in the Yahoo bar could be used
> for more buttons.
> >>
> >>BTW I'm currently running bar version
> .5.6625520.33045204 and the change 
> >>toolbar layout method of changing the search box
> size just did the *most* 
> >>amazing thing. I also have it in Netscape 7.2
> (there is says version -1).
> >>
> >>Changing the layout did not seem to have any
> effect when in FF (version 
> >>1.0PR) Not even on the Yahoo site (refreshing
> toolbar, exiting browser, 
> >>restarting it, and going back to Change toolbar
> layout showed it still 
> >>set for the default Large setting).
> >>
> >>I went into NS 7.2 (closing Firefox) and tried
> changing it there. No joy, 
> >>though the site did say it was set to 'small'.
> Opened FF, still large. 
> >>Opened NS again, and tada, the search field is
> small. Switched back to 
> >>FF(which had not been closed this time), and...the
> bar is small there 
> >>too, like I wanted it.
> >>
> >>Just thought that was strange...
> >>
> >>Rich
> >>
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