Birnam Designs is a quality web design and development agency in Virginia
« Photoshop Fountain of Youth
jumping text wrap in Flash 8 »

inline search for IE7

For those of you that have already taken the plunge and installed IE 7.0 (before we’re all dunked), one Firefox (and Opera) feature that you might wish had been copied but wasn’t is the inline search. In Firefox, hitting Ctrl-F doesn’t open the standard Find dialog box — or any dialog box at all, for that matter. Instead it opens a small pane in the bottom of the window. The main benefit is that it allows complete interactivity with the contents of the window, even with the Find pane open. If you’ve ever used it, you love it. But IE7 still has the same-old Find dialog.

Unless you go to IEForge.com and install their Inline Search Add-On! As far as I can tell, it has identical functionality to the Firefox incarnation, so I’m happy.

Now if only someone will write an Add-On for IE to open View Source in IE window (not the default text editor), also with Inline Search.

Tags: , , , , , ,

This entry was posted on Monday, October 23rd, 2006 at 2:18 am and is filed under useful links, software, quick tips, plugins. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “inline search for IE7”

  1. JFR Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 3:37 pm

    Hi,

    If you a looking for a “view source” under IE with an inline search, you can download the debugbar.
    The tool is free (for personal use) and has a “view source” with inline search feature.
    The “view source” window can be also also called using the Alt+S key (and you can configure it to any other key you like).

    Do not hesitate to send any feedback to the debugbar team !

    Hope this helps.

  2. david Says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 4:37 pm

    Thanks for the link — I’ll check that out

  3. Travis Says:
    January 25th, 2007 at 8:23 am

    Now THAT just made my day! That’s far and away one of my favorite Firefox features.