Comments on: How To Create a Search Button for the Google Toolbar http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-create-a-search-button-for-the-google-toolbar/ Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gabber http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-create-a-search-button-for-the-google-toolbar/#comment-398592 Gabber Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:45:34 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=8747#comment-398592 Hi Thanks for this nice trick. With the latest ENG 3.5.2 firefox I could not install any google toolbars to use my local google search. All used the default english version even though I selected my local google search in the toolbar options. Now with this I simply used it on the local google search field and set this button up. Thanks Again Hi

Thanks for this nice trick. With the latest ENG 3.5.2 firefox I could not install any google toolbars to use my local google search. All used the default english version even though I selected my local google search in the toolbar options. Now with this I simply used it on the local google search field and set this button up.

Thanks Again

]]> By: Jorge Sierra http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-create-a-search-button-for-the-google-toolbar/#comment-362333 Jorge Sierra Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:16:29 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=8747#comment-362333 The API is more or less limited to submitting data to forms that use the <a href="http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/_FORM_METHOD_GET.html" rel="nofollow">GET method</a> (i.e. the form fields are transmitted within the URL) and retrieving information in RSS feeds. The <a href="http://toolbar.google.com/T5/intl/en/index.html" rel="nofollow">version 5 (beta) of the Google Toolbar</a> does allow you to assign gadgets to buttons. However, they are rendered in their own windows, so you would not have access to the DOM for the current page being viewed in the main browser window. In other words, you wouldn't be able to do any kind of manipulation on the page or even read from it. The API does not provide any hooks into the browser, so unfortunately you can't perform menu actions and such either. The API is more or less limited to submitting data to forms that use the GET method (i.e. the form fields are transmitted within the URL) and retrieving information in RSS feeds. The version 5 (beta) of the Google Toolbar does allow you to assign gadgets to buttons. However, they are rendered in their own windows, so you would not have access to the DOM for the current page being viewed in the main browser window. In other words, you wouldn’t be able to do any kind of manipulation on the page or even read from it. The API does not provide any hooks into the browser, so unfortunately you can’t perform menu actions and such either.

]]> By: NR http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-create-a-search-button-for-the-google-toolbar/#comment-362313 NR Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:19:18 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=8747#comment-362313 Thanks. Didn't know it could be done. Is there a way to make toolbar "buttons" for other programs that would lead to, say, a menu action? Thanks. Didn’t know it could be done. Is there a way to make toolbar “buttons” for other programs that would lead to, say, a menu action?

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