Google Bar In Xp

[ShockAndAwe^i^]

Hey everyone!
This is my attempt to make the Google Bar a little less obtrusive in XP's Internet Explorer.
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/ww.jpg

Had to get rid of NAV from IE, but I rarely ever use it from that location.
Who can do better?
Show me! :rolleyes:

[Xilo]

I prefer typing "g whatevercrap" instead of having a big ugly toolbar lol. I guess that would be the ultimate less obtrusive then having the toolbar since you only type a lousy extra 2 keys ;)

[ShockAndAwe^i^]

Ah ha
But that's where your wrong!
I don't think it's ugly anymore, and it's way more useful than typing an extra 2 letters.

[sparsely]

http://pluto.imagemagician.com/images/sparsely/Misc/google.gif

The only buttons I left on Google were Web Search, Site Search, and Image Search.
I rarely ever translate a page, and who cares about the spyware add-ins (page rank, etc)?
Makes a nice fit.

[sparsely]

btw, anyone who uses Google, either via website or Toolbar, should go here (http://www.google-watch.com) and find out what they're actually doing
with your searches.

[ShockAndAwe^i^]

You know
I've often thought of the power of Google and clicked on your links immediately when I saw them.
@Article

If we're all very lucky, one of the other three will offer some competition within several years...
That's a fact!
Imagine the power?
I haven't finished reading it all, but just had to make a quick comment.

Good work with the google bar!
That's the kind of posts I wanna see :D
Btw, I really like the highlight button.
It helps cut through all the crap on the search page.

[ShockAndAwe^i^]

Oh Yeah
I see you like a very clean IE Bar.
I like it, and will be making a few changes based on yours.
But I like as much functionality crammed into it as possible.

[balamm]

You know... If you had popup stopper companion installed instead of popup stopper pro, you wouldn't need that google tool bar. The companion has a hotlink button in the middle of the browser bar that allows you to hotlink or bookmark specific pages and jump to them very quickly. It looks like you also don't have the IE cleaning tools that popup stopper companion provides. You can clear cookies, history, recycle bin, cache, and more from IE.

[ShockAndAwe^i^]

Thanks for the popup companion tip.
I will check it out! ;)

My updated IE bar
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/2.jpg

[chalkmongoose]

Originally posted by Sparsely@8 July 2003 - 08:55
btw, anyone who uses Google, either via website or Toolbar, should go here (http://www.google-watch.com) and find out what they're actually doing
with your searches.
Your making something out of nothing. Google.com does not HIDE what they are doing. They inform you that they would like to know what site's you visit, so that they can make pageRank work and earn some money through advertising. You can turn off ALL of the reporting features, extremely easily, without registy modifications.

[chalkmongoose]

Originally posted by ShockAndAwe^i^@8 July 2003 - 07:01
Hey everyone!
This is my attempt to make the Google Bar a little less obtrusive in XP's Internet Explorer.
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/ww.jpg

Had to get rid of NAV from IE, but I rarely ever use it from that location.
Who can do better?
Show me! :rolleyes:
Man, your toolbar is MESSY! :D
You must not be able to find anything... :lol:
Check out http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/untitled.JPG
That's my beauty. I really toned it down.
EDIT: I may as well point out that the damn picture cut out a bit of my bar.
It is one line, with no text, but on the end I have the glasses w/ eyes feature in Google Experimental turned on, so as to be able to find anything.

[ShockAndAwe^i^]

I use everything up there all the time.
I wish I could pack even more into it.
You see, to me it's not messy at all.
I think if I used a skin it would be messy, but IE skins make the bar messy even when there's nothing there.
The only thing I really don'y need up there is popup stopper.
It'll work anyway.

Here you go
What do you think of this config?
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/3.jpg
minus norton, popup stopper and that stupid msn "search" icon.

But now I look at all that empty real estate on the top line and think to myself-
"What cool (and functional) program can I put there"?

Give me some input people! :D

[Rip The Jacker]

Heh, with Opera you don't really need the Google toolbar, comes with built-in Google search! :)

http://www.fhost.org/x/krackhead2k/opera.jpg

[ShockAndAwe^i^]

I don't use opera too much.
Too many bugs
But here's a big reason I don't use it more often-
I can't get this page Chinkii Image uploader (http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/) to work at all in opera.
I need this page to upload images to the web (which I do very often).
The problem is after you choose a category a button should popup that says next.
Without that button poping up I can't go to the next page to upload Images.
Don't tell me to use another place because this one is free,you don't have to register and you can upload as many images as you want!

here it is in Opera
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/opera%20c.jpg

Here it is in Explorer
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/misc/chinkii.jpg

see what I mean?
Can anyone get this page right in Opera?