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so be for i started using Firefox i was using IE 9 and i had a bing tool bar and i was wondering if i can get some of the fetchers or similar. i would like the firefox search bar to do these things -after i hit enter and if it autocrats or i search something else it will make the changes without me redoing it -i can search different things on different tabs without affecting the prevues tab(s) so is there a way to make the search box work like the bing tool bar

so be for i started using Firefox i was using IE 9 and i had a bing tool bar and i was wondering if i can get some of the fetchers or similar. i would like the firefox search bar to do these things -after i hit enter and if it autocrats or i search something else it will make the changes without me redoing it -i can search different things on different tabs without affecting the prevues tab(s) so is there a way to make the search box work like the bing tool bar

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I don't have personal experience with the Bing bar on IE9.

(1) "After i hit enter and if it autocrats or i search something else it will make the changes without me redoing it"

I don't think I understand this one... When you search using Firefox's search bar (either using Bing or another search engine), Firefox loads the results page but it's a one-way trip: changes you (or the search engine) make in the page do not get transferred back to the search bar.

Did I miss the point?

(2) "I can search different things on different tabs without affecting the prevues tab(s) so is there a way to make the search box work like the bing tool bar"

You can set the search bar to always open a new tab for your results. This is a hidden setting. Here's how you can change it:

  • In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
  • In the Search box above the list, type or paste sea and pause while the list is filtered.
  • Double-click browser.search.openintab to switch it from false to true (the line should turn bold).

Now when you click the magnifying glass button or press Enter in the search bar, your search should open in a new tab. Does that work?

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ok answer 2 works fine but i wish i could have it like the bing tool bar but hay it works but that fixes half of number 2. i would like the bar to be blank or what ever i typed instead of being the something in the different tabs. ok let me redo number 1. when i type some like "online games" or if its misspelled like "onine gmes" (so i misted it or add something) or when i change it in bing.com the search box stays the somei would like it to change not stay the some.

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how can i just install the bing tool bar, i tried but it says it for the software but is there a way to get it in firefox

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Which Bing bar did you try to install? Was it this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bing/

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no i was using http://toolbar.discoverbing.com/en-US and i just tried the link you gave and it wont download it says there is an engine with the same name. so what do i do

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Looks like the extension on the Add-ons site is not a full toolbar, just a "search plugin" for the Firefox search bar. That's already included with Firefox when you get it. I don't know what happened to the toolbar, sorry.

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well i tried about every thing that came up but nothing worked so can you help with this?

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I'm pretty sure you need an add-on. Watching what appears in your Bing results page and copying it back to a toolbar (either the built-in search bar or a new toolbar) isn't a built-in feature of Firefox.

I'm not aware of any add-ons like that, maybe someone else will have an idea.

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