Comments on: Toolbar Thinger

By: doesnt work

doesnt work — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:42:15 +0000

i got firefox 3.6.
i installed nightly tester tools 2.0.3.
i installed thinger v1.0 via the download button above. when the message ocurred that the version was to old i clicked “force install”.

all i got new in the “add symbol” options is the id in textbox thing and two gearwheels which seem not to do anything. … so that doesnt work for me. any more ideas ?

By: when?

when? — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:52:30 +0000

found a way round the compatibility.

First install an addon called “nightly tester tools”.

Second install “thinger”.

third click “override” the the outdated thinger can be installed.

thats it!

By: when?

when? — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:32:02 +0000

When will this be updated? If the original author has given up is there a hack to make it compatible with ff 3.6 and above?

By: eylem

eylem — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:19:26 +0000

hi,
I’m using thinger on ff3.6 RC1… I did it by copying the old version’s profile folder to the new profile folder. Use FEBE… But you cannot change the settings. set it as you wish, then migrate it to the new profile by FEBE.
thank you for this great addon

By: pingo.mister

pingo.mister — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:35:56 +0000

So, what´s new? Anyone got to contact the author about putting the source code online, or something like that?

Multiple search bars are still working ok here, but I fear problems with upcoming versions of Firefox, specially those that might have major user interface redraws.

This simple thing should be a part of Firefox itself… I really don´t understand how people can be happy with only one search bar. Everyone uses google, youtube and wikipedia on a regular basis, what do they do? Type wikipedia.org and then type the search? Silly waste of time.

Anyway, let´s keep up the effort to make this feature compatible, thanks everyone.

By: JTV

JTV — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:11:21 +0000

Can you tell me please how you added the four search boxes? I tried to multiply the boxes with tags in thinger.xml and “…,thinger-xxxxxxxxxxxxx,separator,” in localstore.rdf. But I only get two search boxes. Perhaps I forget something?

Indeed it would be nice if some enthusiastic developer would update the add-on to FF3.5 and higher – its such a great thing(er)!

By: cns

cns — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:05:35 +0000

very nice add-on (thinger) But very frustrating it wont be updated as it does exactly what i was sooo wishing for and spend ages looking to do.. (add extra bookmark toolbars).

personally the searches etc served me no purpose (for my needs)
But the option to make more toolbars was priceless.
I only wish someone would make it work under firefox 3.5 even if its just a way to get the extra toolbars.
this is definitely a plugin that should have been kept up. since mozilla dont give 2 hoots about extra toolbars.
If anyone knows how to get the toolbar part at least, to work with ff 3.5.
feel free to let me know how to do it.
thanks

By: LK

LK — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:51:31 +0000

nice, another happy multiple search bar user now here.

i suggested to dave to put the source up on github and the crowd could make it work with 3.5. i guess any one of us could create the repo but i think it’s best if either dave says OK to whoever else or puts the repo up himself.

By: Dono

Dono — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:58:58 +0000

Yep, tried up to four. Really easy. Great, thanks.

By: Dono

Dono — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:47:42 +0000

I can confirm that Church’s way works! I didn’t have to downgrade firefox or anything at all. I used a different image but not sure if it matters or not.

Using 3.5.5 and didn’t have to downgrade to 3.0.

I only have two search bars right now, but I’ll check later if more can be made.