Replacement Firefox addon for Google ToolBars Highlight

Shrimply

Hi guys,

I've recently discovered that the Google Toolbar add-on for firefox is the reason it begins to use huge amounts of memory the longer its open I'm sure this wont surprise many of you.

And I've put up with it for a while but its using 1.5GB+ of memory after being open for a few hours, its just not practical.

The thing is I use the toolbar for one sole purpose and that's the Highlight feature, for those that don't use it if you google something, then open up a webpage it highlights all the words in your previous search. And allows you to choose a specific word you searched for and jump to its location on the page - Basically its a life saver when trying to study.

For just now I'm probably going to just disable the tool bar and activate it when need be - but that's a kinda round about way of doing things.

Can anyone suggest an alternative which works in a similar way. I've had a look but most of them don't seem to be nearly as useful, for instance there is one that integrates into the Find bar.

Thanks in advance

Dave_C_2

I use the Firefox add-on Googlebar Lite. Just search the add-ons for googlebar and it's one of the first few returned.

Doesn't use much memory!

Dave

Shrimply

Thanks, I tried it but it doesn't let you move the buttons around , so usually I'm have the highlight button etc with all the rest on the All-in-one-Side bar but that isn't possible.

It looks like I'm going to have to change my browsing habits or put up with the memory leak.

Honestly though, my firefox is now constantly using around 200,000K of memory, I really don't understand why google have not made an effort to improve their toolbars memory usage, its slightly ridicules really.