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The newest addition to my Firefox web habit is Groowe, a toolbar which has replaced the Google toolbar for me. It has the two important features I need and a bit more.
The first thing I like about it is setting it to open a new window when I want to search Google for something. It really bugs me if I have to backtrack or remember to open a window first each time. I like to keep the site I was on. I want to look at all the links before I lose that window. Groowe, just as the Google toolbar before it, does that very well.
The second thing I like about Groowe is the reason I am no longer using the Google toolbar. Groowe works with my older operating system which runs my older computer. I know it’s illegal to run a PC which hasn’t been taken over by Windows XP at the very least but… some of us are just rebels at heart. We keep the old PC and it’s working friends until we can splurge on a new one. Even if it takes years. So, when Google’s toolbar outdated itself right out of my system I went looking for something else. I found it with Groowe. I also like Groowe cause it lets me add searches other than Google. It’s like seeing old friends I had forgotten about for awhile. I do remember looking at Altavista, Excite and Yahoo long before Google was a word.
10 Comments
Richard
April 11th, 2007
at 12:48am
Um, the word google was coined in 1938 and is a number defined as one followed by 100 zeros. It’s been around a bit longer than Yahoo.
Corinna Makris
April 11th, 2007
at 1:50am
From one creative fat girl to another — thank you! I love reading your blog. You give me tech assistance, craft ideas and you have a sense of humor. You brighten up my day. Now everyone say…”awwwwwwww.”
Corinna Makris
www.acelebrationofcurves.com
Dominick
April 11th, 2007
at 3:42am
You know firefox can add 1000 search engines if you felt the need to add them right into the default search bar on the right? Click the G for google in your firefox default search bar and then click “Manage search engines” and then click “get more search engines”
anyway, just lettin ya know..
Dominick
P.S.
If you want to manage your tabs a hell of alot better then ever before.. I suggest getting the extension called Tab Mix Plus
Roger Crutchfield
April 11th, 2007
at 7:30am
When I click on Firefox, I get a error message:
Alert
onLookup Failed 55 1
Wehn you click Ok four or five times the error message goes away but sometimes Firefox fails.
Rich Gledson
April 11th, 2007
at 11:10pm
Have you considered using Opera browser. There is a separate google search but there is also the much more useful facility to prefix the query with g (for google) a (for answers.com) etc.
Example: g chris +pirillo searches google.
These shortcuts are editable so you can set up your favourite search engines.
Pat
April 17th, 2007
at 6:38am
Hi thatgrrl!
Haven’t tried Groowe yet but used to be annoyed by the same problem using Google toobar in Fx having to switch back and forth between it and search results. All that came to and end when I installed the CoolIris Preview extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207). Read about it in one of the Lockergnome emails I receive. CoolIris Preview is simply super. It pops up a small blusih icon next to any URL on a webpage. Clicking the blue icon will render a full preview of that URL and if you wish you can simply add the preview as a tab by selection that option in the preview title bar. You might want to give it a try, its really great.
Hank
April 19th, 2007
at 8:34pm
Appreciate anti-MS, read over a couple post from Ft Grrl (relax it will be okay). Richard - April 11, 2007 @ 12:48 am search before engaging. Google is not 1938 or older (maybe better) then Yahoo. IT’S GOOGOL MR Richard - April 11, 2007 @ 12:48 am (AKA PICNIC)
Problem in Chair Not in Computer…
Kenneth W Garrett
April 24th, 2007
at 5:04pm
Response to Richard, April 11, 2007:
The word of which you are thinking is googol. As an old mathhound, I have reason to remember. A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
thatgrrl
April 25th, 2007
at 10:26am
I knew google wasn’t a word until Google began. So umm, read your dictionary. Google posted about choosing that name for whatever reasons and they did say one of them was cause it wasn’t already a word.
Don’t you feel stupid when you try to put someone else down and just end up looking like a jerk yourself?
Hoof Pick
April 25th, 2007
at 2:18pm
Thanks. I always welcome Firefox extension tips. This ones a keeper.
I’ve gotta dive in on Google. Might not have been a word, but was certainly a name as early as 1919, when the Barney Google comic strip started. It even inspired a popular song:
“Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googly eyes.
Barney Google had a wife three times his size.
She stood Barney for divorce,
Now he’s living with his horse.”