[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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