Acts of Volition

Feature Request: Google Suggest for Firefox

Posted by Steven Garrity on Saturday, December 11, 2004 in Open Source Software, Usability & Design - 8 comments

Weblogs are abuzz^* today with the the Google Suggest beta featuring javascript-powered auto-complete in the search box.

I’d like to float an obvious (I think) suggestion for Firefox. I would like to see the Google search bar that is built-in to Firefox have this Google Suggestion auto-complete functionality, but with a real XUL flydown (like the auto-complete for ULRs in the address bar).

Yup, abuzz is actually a word.

Comments

Josh - December 11, 2004 12:51 am

http://www.radiantrock.com/blog/

That is a great idea! I hope that someone from Firefox is listening and will get this into the nightlies soon. Also, support for it on the new Firefox start page would be nice as well.

Chris Messina - December 11, 2004 12:52 am

http://www.factorycity.net

Oooo.... So who's up for writing an extension?

Oh, and while I'm posting, who wants to write some XUL to be embedded in Spread Firefox? Yes, I would like SFX to be the first Firefox-aware, XUL supporting website on the web... But I have absolutely ZERO knowledge about how to pull it off. :)

Imagine managing your posts from the sidebar... downloading Firefox art in a shopping cart... Rating ANYTHING you see on the site! That's what I want... Who's up for it?

Chris

P.S. Thanks, Steven, for letting me have a call to action on your site. ;D

Tom - December 11, 2004 9:04 am

I'd love to see this as well - i hope the greatest XUL makers in the land(s) can have a stab at this very worthy project!

tom

Ben Karel - December 11, 2004 8:13 pm

http://eschew.org

Ask, and ye shall receive...

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=182243
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=182186

Unfortunately, there's no clear way to get the autocomplete list sorted alphabetically; either the suggestions come after the history (1st link) , or you need to have a separate Google Suggestions channel (2nd link.)