Google Fx Adds Loads Of Features To Google Search
Firefox with Greasemonkey: User script Google Fx adds a ton of features to the Google search interface—from related searches and Wikipedia results to thumbnail previews and search suggestions.
Using the script is fairly obvious, just install it and search for any term in Google—you’ll see all of the added functionality immediately. The added features include related searches, Wikipedia results, thumbnail previews, Google suggestions, image lightbox, auto-paging, additional search engines, and more, but it’s the integrated settings dialog that really makes this extension interesting—you can use the user script commands menu under the Greasemonkey icon to pull up the Google Fx settings, and turn features on or off to suit your own preferences.
Google Fx is a free download, requires Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension. For more Google customisations, see how to add the Google Reader unread count to the FavIcon, or Internet Explorer users can check out Customize Google for IE.
Thanks, Rambo!
Google Fx [userscripts.org]
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I cant seem to find the settings page..
what am i doing wrong?
Very useful. A must have for firefox
liubebo
I'll give it a shot
@ADiSH: Last option under the "more" menu
@Antony_256: And, generically, under:
Tools | Greasemonkey | User Script Commands
Kind of messes you up if you're using iGoogle, unfortunately.
Karl He
That's great. What I like most? The Wikipedia bar on the right!
David Gilling
@ADiSH: ...or just click the FX in the GoogleFX logo!
@Karl He:
It also seems to have issues with other Google apps, namely The top bar in GMail and GReader large sidebar fonts.
skyhopper88
I will continue to use Google as is, thanks :-)
This is awesome. It's so damn functional.
I love Greasemonkey!
Lawrence Fleming
@skyhopper88: Only problem I've found with it is a slight conflict with google redesigned on GMail and GCal, other than that... amazing extension.
Alexander Ward
@Alexander Ward: If it only applies to Google Search, I'm not sure why it has all of Google in its "Included Pages". Anyway, should be easy enough to edit that to exclude Gmail/Gcal/other Google services.
olliebean
anyone knows which are the differences between this and GooglePreview?
@olliebean: Just noticed it has options in its setup page to exclude all or any of the other Google services anyway.
olliebean
@rpmiranda: ok.. google fx has a lot more stuff
Very nice, indeed!
stanhubrio
Its a nice script, but there too much going on the screen at once. Even after trying to tweak it for 10+ minutes, it just doesn't look "right" (to me).
Very nice. But not sure if I should uninstall Googlepedia (awesome extension, by the way.) Any ideas?
I like my google dry. shaken not stirred please. :)
googles' clean interface with google customize does the job for me.
MajSh
It's a pretty cool script but it seems to noticeably slow my searches.
Kane65
@ADiSH:
Ok, just realized the reason i cant find it because it didnt worked with my text 2 link script
Very spiffy love it so far, replaces My google preview add on i've been using for a while. :) once customized this Script is really useful
Oscar Ayala
Looks nice but my Firefox RAM usage jumped 130 MB when I enabled this script and did a couple of Google searches. Disabled it and the RAM footprint shrank back down.
meehawl
@David Gilling: Nice, me too. I'm sick of typing "wiki" into every other search I do.
ArgoKnots
nice! just nice ^_^
ikawka
Very very nice, thou it's buggy in image search, at least for me.
@meehawl: Doubt it.
Brent James Millard
Impressive.
We are all too familiar with google's bare clean face, which upon first site this seems a bit "excessive & busy" but I got used to it after a few searches. I'm rather liking it.
Can't please everyone can you.
I like how when scroll to the bottom more results show.
Brent James Millard
That is nice, if you love Google and you want to know more about Google's features, visit the following website to explore all the of the Google awesome functionality.
[www.onlyjust.net]
Thanks,
Ammar Yameen
@Brent James Millard:
What do you doubt? That I can't read off a Mem Use/Peak Mem/VM Size from a process list, or that I can't glance at a graphic readout and eyeball it? Or that I can't check a delta in my free mem before and after activating and deactivating the script from within GreaseMonkey and doing a page refresh.
Brent James Millard, I doubt your intentions, Sir, I do.
meehawl
useful but ugly. way way ugly. refuse to use it because of that. chill out with the icons and custom styles
Howto :
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Hemanth Hm
Howto :
+ Watch video
Hemanth Hm
@loudambiance: Yes I too prefer Google's simple interface.
ssj4Gogeta
@ssj4Gogeta: Have either of you tried the script to come to that conclusion? Or have you judged the book by it's cover?
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I prefer google extra ([userscripts.org]). It's way cleaner than this user script.
Grigori Gazarian
I too think it's pretty busy, but I haven't tweaked it yet. I'm pretty impressed by what I see so far.. This could actually replace Google Preview and CustomizeGoogle all at the same time.. good job to the author!