Is there any extension to get the find dialog back?

gssq · Post by **gssq** » February 9th, 2005, 7:43 am

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OH GOD!!! I second idbehold.

I love you man!

But perhaps the version number should be bumped down until the bugs have been worked out (or no bugs have been found for a time). Not that I've found any yet

effgee · Post by **effgee** » February 9th, 2005, 10:58 am

Unarmed wrote:Bumping this ancient thread with an extension.
Retro Find 1.0 implements the diffs that red_avni found. My first attempt at writing an extension, but tested and working under Firefox 1.0.

Thank you!! - I hate that retarded "bar thing" with a passion.

gssq · Post by **gssq** » February 9th, 2005, 11:25 am

Perhaps in the next version the search could be made recursive - ie after searching to the bottom of the page it will start from the top again?

Unarmed · Post by **Unarmed** » February 9th, 2005, 12:34 pm

Well, the search does wrap back to the top if you have the <code>[v] Wrap</code> box checked. You mean you don't want the alert to pop up when it hits the bottom? You could try Cusser's "Find Statusbar" extension.

sasquatch · Post by **sasquatch** » February 9th, 2005, 1:55 pm

Awesome! I think you should find the bug where this was originally taken away and post the link there for all those who wanted it back.

Post by **BenBasson** » February 9th, 2005, 2:33 pm

Unarmed wrote:Well, the search does wrap back to the top if you have the <code>[v] Wrap</code> box checked. You mean you don't want the alert to pop up when it hits the bottom? You could try Cusser's "Find Statusbar" extension.

I have no plans to maintain that extension, since I'm perfectly happy with the Find toolbar. However, the code could easily be merged into this one, and should still work just fine, despite being out of date since Firefox 0.9's release.

sasquatch · Post by **sasquatch** » February 9th, 2005, 2:36 pm

Mighty generous of you. I hope they take you up on that.

;-)

TheOldMan · Post by **TheOldMan** » February 9th, 2005, 3:36 pm

Unarmed wrote:Bumping this ancient thread with an extension.

Retro Find 1.0 implements the diffs that red_avni found. My first attempt at writing an extension, but tested and working under Firefox 1.0.

Thank you, Thank you!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050209 Firefox/1.0+

Unarmed · Post by **Unarmed** » February 9th, 2005, 8:48 pm

Cusser wrote:I have no plans to maintain that extension, since I'm perfectly happy with the Find toolbar. However, the code could easily be merged into this one, and should still work just fine, despite being out of date since Firefox 0.9's release.

Since you don't mind, I've gone ahead and rolled the functionality into version 1.1.

For those that don't need the status bar, 1.0 is still available.

gssq · Post by **gssq** » February 11th, 2005, 3:10 am

Yay

Btw, http://s93731204.onlinehome.us/firefox/ still displays the old page

Maybe it should redirect people to http://s93731204.onlinehome.us/firefox/retrofind.html

d13f00l · Post by **d13f00l** » February 13th, 2005, 12:31 pm

Thanks a lot. I was searching again on google for an extension and this came up. Switching back to firefox from mozilla now.

gssq · Post by **gssq** » February 13th, 2005, 1:05 pm

You hated the find bar that much huh *g*

gssq · Post by **gssq** » February 16th, 2005, 4:07 am

Is there a way to get retro find to work in the View Source window, incidentally? Though there the find bar is tolerable...

Unarmed · Post by **Unarmed** » February 17th, 2005, 6:38 pm

Yes, I've added that to the latest version (1.2).

technomage · Post by **technomage** » February 22nd, 2005, 11:08 am

Would there be any way to use this new extension to figure out a way to add a "wrap" check box to the new findbar? Preferably in a way so that it remembers the user's wrap preference.

Also, Unarmed, you may want to consider making your extension remember the person's wrap preference (i.e. if I uncheck it once, it remains unchecked until I check it myself). There's an old extension that may be of some help with this task here.