GoogleResultsWalker Firefox addon

Google Results Walker in action

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Description

This Firefox addon enables fast navigation of google results, while still retaining the google "feel". Navigate the results using the mousewheel, and mouse over a result to display it in a window to the right. Try it, it's fast and fun!

Details

When you search using google, the results page will be changed as follows.

• The results on the lefthand side will be placed in a scrollable container. Google results are 48 "small" characters wide. The container will be sized to hold the results exactly as google provides them.
• A second container is placed in the remaining space on the right. Mouse over a result link and it will be displayed in the righthand container.

Use a high resolution (1024x768 or higher) to really get the most out of this addon. If you run at a very high resolution of 1600x1200 or higher, you will most likely be able to see the full result page. Good times!

Status

Personally, I need this addon, and I'll be maintaining it into the foreseeable future. But I've decided to try a digital-economy experiment: my development on the addon will be strictly dictated by donations. If you're the first to donate $5 and you want a flashing hot pink border, I'll give it my best shot. Fly me, I'm yours. Updated daily.

Request	Donation
Prevent result from taking over entire window	$23
Toggle on/off mouseover with a big lightswitch	$5
Add Options to split preview into 1, 2 or 4 panes and each roll over puts the preview in the next pane
Make Preview window resizable
If browsing in preview window you can get far away from the original google result. Create a way to open the current preview window in a new tab, window, current tab, etc.
Improve initial size of results container
Handle font size change - even provide buttons for it?
Handle window resize a little better

Click here to join in. There will be a "Request" field at the end of the process. Tell me your bidding.

Send gripes, hellos, patches, death threats, love letters to: resultswalker@gmail.com

Addon Compatibility

I've tried this with the following addons, with pretty good success. Let me know if there's something specific that doesn't work for you.

• CustomizeGoogle - Be careful - this addon includes a "stream results" option that pulls down more than the first page of search results. I typically ask google for 100 results, and with this option on, it wasn't long before google was banning me!
• The usual popular ones (Adblock Plus, ColorfulTabs, TabMixPlus, Greasemonkey, etc.)
• Fasterfox - This addon includes link prefetching (controversial topic!) that makes for even faster mouseovers (and massive bandwidth usage!). Has this fallen out of favor?

Changelog

• Determined that CustomizeGoogle "stream search results" with 100 results will quickly get you banned by Google! Proceed with caution...

0.5.4 09/02/2008

• fixed default "no results" page
• reduced size of javascript

0.5.3 09/01/2008

• updated to skip table#nav in height calc if it doesn't exist (before it would error out)
• removed "get lucky" autoload until I can prevent iframe from taking over window

0.5.2 09/01/2008

• iframe resized on window resize

0.5.1 08/30/2008

• two-columns, sized correctly on first view (but not on window resize)

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0.0.1 2008

• originally named "google unsucked", not very nice

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ancient past 01/14/2004

• Birth: the original (currently broken) perl webscrape version was called GoogleFramed