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

[Bob Rowlands]

--- Dave Viner <daveviner at yahoo.com> wrote:

> when i click the magnifying glass, the search box
> hides.
> 
> isn't that what you want?

No, I want something that's much more intuitive than that.

> 
> 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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