284300 - New extension: Yahoo Search Sidebar for Firefox

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Marc Abramowitz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

This Firefox extension adds a “Yahoo! Search” item in Firefox’s View | Sidebar
menu (Alt+Y is the shortcut key) that opens a sidebar tailored for Web searching
with Yahoo! Search. It’s using JavaScript to access Yahoo’s Web Services API.
Tested with Firefox 1.0 and 1.0.1.

http://marc.abramowitz.info/archives/2005/03/01/yahoo-search-sidebar-for-firefox/

-Marc Abramowitz
 http://marc.abramowitz.info
 [e-mail]

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[alanjstr]

Can you provide me with a direct link to the XPI?  Also, please be aware that we
will not be able to show the license that you display on Yahoo.

Comment 2

[Marc Abramowitz]

Here's a link to the .XPI:

http://ysearchsidebar.sourceforge.net/yahoo_search_sidebar-1.0.0.xpi

That's fine to not show the license. Yahoo only wanted to show a license for
direct downloads from Yahoo.

Comment 3

[Marc Abramowitz]

Oops! Wrong path! Try this one instead:

http://ysearchsidebar.sourceforge.net/downloads/yahoo_search_sidebar-1.0.0.xpi

Comment 4

[Marc Abramowitz]

Do you need any other info from me?

Comment 5

[alanjstr]

A few suggestions:
It would help if there were some sort of indication that I was supposed to type
text in the box.  Maybe when you open the sidebar some default text of "search
terms".  
There's no indication that its working after I hit enter.

Comment 6

[Marc Abramowitz]

Thank you, Alan! Good comments, which I'll keep in mind for the next time I 
resume working on it. I've been busy with a lot of other things recently, 
including a presentation that I am giving on Thursday at Yahoo! to evangelize 
Mozilla and educate more engineers and web devs how to develop for it. Speaking 
of that, I was thinking of starting a contest within the company to encourage 
the development of extensions and the fixing of Mozilla-related bugs - would 
the Mozilla foundation be interested in funding some sort of prize for such a 
contest?

Comment 7

[alanjstr]

I'd probably say you should email [e-mail] for that.  Of course Yahoo's
support for Mozilla has been in the news lately.

Comment 8

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

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