I was made aware that BetterSearch is currently not working on Google. Apparently, Google changed the HTML of the results page, and BetterSearch doesn’t know what to do.

I’ll release 1.22 soon. Stay tuned.

Update 2008-08-22: I’ve just uploaded v1.22 to the Mozilla addon site; once it’s been reviewed by the staff there, it should show up here.

Update 2008-08-24: v1.22 was reviewed and approved!

I’ve updated BetterSearch, my Firefox/Flock addon, to version 1.21. Here’s what’s new:

• Compatible with Flock 2 beta+.
• FIX: Action icons are back.
• FIX: Delicious support unbroken! It’s glorious.
• FIX: MSN/Live support works again.
• FIX: Statusbar tooltip was showing the wrong version number. Silly thing.
• FIX: Made some minor enhancements to Google URL normalisation.
• FIX: Removed remnant code (”big icons” etc.).
• CHG: Removed support for everything but Yahoo!, Google, MSN and Delicious. Sorry, don’t have the time anymore to keep track of anything else.

Go get the new version while it’s still hot! :)

Brings no new features to the table (sorry) but compatibility with Firefox 3.0.* and Flock 1.2.

Enjoy! (The new version should also appear on AMO soon.)

I’ve updated my Firefox addon BetterSearch to version 1.19. The update brings Firefox 3 and Flock compatibility and fixes the thumbnails for Yahoo! Search. Also, it now looks a little bit better due to new icons, c/o FamFamFam.

You remember BetterSearch, right? No? Oh, okay.

“An extension for Firefox and Flock which enhances Google (all international flavours, too), Yahoo Search, del.icio.us, MSN Search [...] by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product images and info (type, price, rating for US/DE/UK/CA/FR products), a quick preview feature as well as “Open in New Window”, “Site Info” and “Wayback Machine” links to the search results.”

The other changes are minor and mostly under the hood to prepare for the next major version.

Go check it out!

Next up: better thumbnails. Work, work…

Dear old people of Nippon,

thank you. It is only because of you that I am still the one and only Yahoo!/Google search engine result for the term Gerontomageddon.

Sincerely yours, Carlo