Online Search Window: extra menu item for random website?

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Gerben
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Online Search Window: extra menu item for random website?

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I was wondering if it is possible to add an item for "random website" in the search menu of the Online Search Window?

Right now all available services can be accessed from the menu but if one wants to add a random website you have to click the "toggle text/webview" button to access a random site.

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Re: Online Search Window: extra menu item for random website?

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By random, I assume you mean a nonrandom site that isn't in the pop-up menu, and that you want to surf to. To do that, enter the site in the File -> Go To URL -> Edit Bookmarks dialog. Then use that menu to quickly access any web site you want. If it's an ad hoc visit, then click on the text/web button and enter it as you would in a browser.

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Re: Online Search Window: extra menu item for random website?

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Jon wrote:By random, I assume you mean a nonrandom site that isn't in the pop-up menu, and that you want to surf to. To do that, enter the site in the File -> Go To URL -> Edit Bookmarks dialog. Then use that menu to quickly access any web site you want. If it's an ad hoc visit, then click on the text/web button and enter it as you would in a browser.
I actually mean an ad hoc visit. But what I would like is to have a standard browser look for ad hoc visits. Right now doing an ad hoc visit always means doing it from within a browser window that shows information belonging to one of the sites in the pop-up menu. Example: if LoC happens to be selected in the menu, it shows a LoC logo upper left and a button named "LoC" lower right. These have nothing to do with the ad hoc search. So I wonder if it is possible to make a 'clean' window for visiting ad hoc sites that can be accessed via the pop-up menu.

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Re: Online Search Window: extra menu item for random website?

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That's an interesting idea. I'll have to think about how that would look and work...

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