Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by AndooMan on Aug. 28, 2009 ·

Great add-on, works flawlessly.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by j0eg0d on Aug. 27, 2009 ·

FINALLY - Big thanks to Charlie58 for the link to "Optimize Google" - People listen ...Optimize Google is the Up-To-Date Customize Google Extension ... check it out: http://www.optimizegoogle.com/2009/08/12/download-version-0-76-3/

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by Charlie58 on Aug. 24, 2009 ·

It seems development has stopped on his extension. Use OptimizeGoogle instead at http://sourceforge.net/projects/optimizegoogle/. It works fine on Firefox 3.5.2.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by DiM1319 on Aug. 19, 2009 ·

well it really do not work with FF 3.5.2;
even if I change em:maxVersion (3.1pre) in install.rdf file to 3.5.*

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by sergejsu on Aug. 17, 2009 ·

It says it is not compatible with FF 3.5.2. and doesn' t install !

However on 3.6. and 3.7. it goes well.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by go2null on Aug. 11, 2009 ·

Please

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by DickS on Aug. 10, 2009 ·

To keep the project alive I've started a blog site with download of latest patched version at www.optimizegoogle.com

Volenteers are welcome :).

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by m0n on Aug. 6, 2009 ·

Thank you very much bugblatter! The fix works and until the next time Google changes their code, I'll be content. Respect!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by bugblatter on Aug. 5, 2009 ·

Bad code - Please ignore my previous post on fixes - sorry about that. For some reason, the special chars in the code got chewed up by this site. I re-posted it at google groups - http://groups.google.com/group/CustomizeGoogle/browse_thread/thread/d18fa8a191b5cfba

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by bugblatter on Aug. 5, 2009 ·

Some fixes: For firefox 3.5.1, here is what worked for me (if you're comfortable with manually editing the javascript.js file; see Phoglenix's 6/17/09 post for help):

* To fix direct image links:
Step 1. Go to (about) line 31 and replace the "var googFonts..." line with this one line (credit to Chris000001 on Google Groups):
var googFonts = selectAllNodes(document, document.body, "//div[@id='ImgContent']/table/tbody/tr/td[starts-with(@id, 'tDataText')]/div/div/cite");

Step 2. Go to (about) line 42 and replace the "var urlmatch..." line with this oen line (see Phoglenix's 6/17/09 post for credit):
var urlmatch = googLinks[x].href.match(/\&imgrefurl\=(.*?)\&usg=/);

* To fix streaming of search result pages when logged on to Google (already works when logged off):
(credit to floatingdays and kadusa - see floatingdays' 5/14/09 post for help)
1. Change -all- occurences of the string (use search&replace):
//li[@class='g']
to:
//li[@class='g' or @class='g w0']

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by m0n on Aug. 3, 2009 ·

Can anyone contact the author? This is the reason FF is so unique beyond other browsers. But this seems to be a reoccurring thing with developers losing track of their work by other life's events, laziness or ADD. Anyone posting a fix would be profusely thanked!

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by FloridaShyne on Aug. 1, 2009 ·

Like so many people have here said, this was a very good Extension but has been allowed to deteriorate increasingly. Google must have power over Firefox also, otherwise why hasn't FF stepped in and fixed this with over 9 million downloads?!?!

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by ShadowBottle on Aug. 1, 2009 ·

Most of the excellent features are broken :\ This used to be one of the essential addons.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by m0n on July 28, 2009 ·

Anyone figure out a fix for the images yet?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Elelías on July 26, 2009 ·

super

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Rock1921 on July 25, 2009 ·

I added the fix posted earlier by Phoglenix and the extension worked beautifully!

Well Google must've made another change since then, because today its BORKED again! Grrr. Christ, author, please update this addon.

5 stars when it works.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Mike on July 25, 2009 ·

Makes google not-evil by removing tracking and ads. |It also makes the various Google components more usable by adding streaming page loads and links to other search engines.

This add-on is a beautiful piece of programming code; It's tiny and very well-maintained. Kudos

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by Firefox user cbc82c on July 25, 2009 ·

It was good but needs an update.

A few options don't seem to work with 3.5

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by nitmask on July 24, 2009 ·

You may notice "smarterfox" the developer, made a post that his addon "smarterfox" does this exact same thing and more. His addon doesn't even remotely do what this addon does. It doesn't automatically change things to HTTPS, it doesn't remove ad area, etc. He's just spamming for more coverage for his addon.

The only downfall to this addon, is Firefox 3.5 claims its not supported (Tho the addon says its up to 3.6)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by DigiDrago on July 23, 2009 ·

smarterfox does the exact same thing and more