[Needlesearch] Context menu behavior
Mark Miller
markmiller at siscom.net
Mon Aug 9 13:58:53 EDT 2004
After upgrading to Firefox 0.9.3 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3) and reinstalling
Needlesearch (2.5rc1) I've noticed that the behavior of the Needlesearch
context menu is different.
In previous versions when you highlighted a text string and selected a
needlesearch from the context menu, a new window would open up with the
search results. The search text would appear in the Needlesearch box of
the NEW window. This was good. I could branch off a new search path,
retain the search terms that led me to the current window, and know what
text string I searched to get the new window.
In 2.5rc1 with the option set to "Search in Window" (shouldn't this be
"Search in New Window"?) the text string of the search is placed in the
CURRENT window, then a new window is opened with the search results. The
Needlesearch box of the new window is blank. This is inconvenient and
destroys much of the functionality of the old setup.
I hope this is just a bug. I would hate to have to give up Needlesearch
for another search toolbar. I've become addicted to it. I also use it to
convince others to switch from IE to Mozilla.
Oh, and you should document that you changed the name of the
NeedleSearchData.rdf to NeedleSearchBookmarks.rdf and moved it to the
user profile extensions directory.
Thanks,
Mark Miller
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