Updated Marc h 9, 2011
 One of the best Bible search tools for Firefox is Bibletoolbar, which accesses the Biblegateway site. Previous to version 2.0, Bibletoolbar also accessed the Crosswalk site.
Changes in how the sites functioned led to the dropping of Crosswalk.
Since then Crosswalk's resources have been moved to Bible Study Tools.
CrosswalkToolbarPlus
Since Bibletoolbar 2.0.1 and 1.5.x
could not coexist, with the consent of the Bibletoolbar authors, I hacked
1.5.x to create a version which can coexist with Bibletoolbar 3.6.0.
This hack I call Crosswalk Toolbar Plus. My most recent customizations
of the toolbar were to add the Interlinear NASV to the list of
translations (the BST Greek and Hebrew fonts are required) and to add
British/Anglicized versions of the NRSV, CEV, and TEV from oremus Bible Browser and BIBLIJA.net, and to add French translations from the Alliance biblique française site. Release 1.0.0.1 was a cosmetic upgrade, from 1.0, to the Options
dialogue. Release 1.0.1 changes the View>Toolbar menu option to W
from C, which removes the conflict with View>Toolbar>Customize.
Release 1.0.3 upped the install version to 3.5.*Release 2.0 changed the links from Crosswalk to Bible Study
Tools. Release 2.0.1 upped the install version to 3.7.*. Release 2.1.0 added the French translations and upped the install version to 4.0.
Bibletoolbar 3.5.0
As noted below, the Bibletoolbar
maintainers, Karl and Denise Herrick, have updated Bibletoolbar for
Firefox 3.x.x compatibility and changed the install ID. This has
improved its interaction with CrosswalkToolbarPlus.
Also a result, BibleToolbar can be
customzized by editing the files in the BibleToolbar extensions folder
of a user's profile--bibletoolbar@bibletoolbar.net.
Input boxes in the toolbar can be
customized for a user's video by changing the width settings in
\extensions\bibletoolbar@bibletoolbar.net\chrome\skin\classic\bibletoolbar.css.
By editing language.js and options.xul a
user can add translations to BibleToolbar. My customizations adding the
TNIV, Hebrew and two additional German translations can be downloaded
and installed by replacing the installed files in the following
locations with the ones in BTRAdd.zip:
bibletoolbar@bibletoolbar.net/chrome/content/language
bibletoolbar@bibletoolbar.net/chrome/content/options
For the menus to be fully activated, the extension may have to be disabled and then enabled.
As always back up the installed files.
MozillaBibletoolbar I have also added the
CrosswalkToolbarPlus customizations to the Mozilla version of
Bibletoolbar 1.5.4, which I call MozillaBibletoolbarPlus. This I have
tested on Seamonkey 1.x.x.x. I plan to update it with the change to Bible Study
Tools.
Bibletoolbar-Plus
Biblegateway has translations which I
use and are not included in 3.0.5. My branch, which I initially called
Bibletoolbar 2.0.2 Plus includes the TNIV, Hebrew, and additional
German translations. With 2.0.2 plus I have changed the installation
routine to no longer seek updates because bibletoolbar.net was now
rejected as an insecure update site.
GA Bibletoolbar2.0.1Plus
The Bibletoolbar maintainers, Karl and
Denise Herrick, have updated Bibletoolbar for Firefox
3.x.x compatibility and changed the install ID, but, so far, have added
no new features. My hope is that the authors will find the time to
improve on their work.
In the meantime because of the new
install ID, I have rewritten my branch 2.0.2, so that it can coexist
with Bibletoolbar 3.0.5. Since it is a branch of 2.0.1, I call it GA
Bibletoolbar 2.0.1 Plus and have numbered it 2.1.0. 2.1.1 updates the
install version to 3.5.*. 2.1.2 updates the install version to 3.7.*.
Because people work in different screen
resolutions and I personally prefer a wider passage entry, I have
created installation XPIs with wider passages.
Note these toolbars are my working
toolbars. Because I am shifting host for my files, the files are now
jar files. They will install in the same way as xpi files.
Right click to download the files and
use File Open or Addons install extension to install them (drag and
drop also should work).
Bibletoolbar2.0.2-Plus wide wider
GA Bibletoolbar2.0.1-Plus 2.1.2 wide wider CrosswalkToolbarPlus 2.1.0 wide wider MozillaBibletoolbarPlus 1.6.1 wide In the case of the Firefox toolbars, I
have found it best to install Bibletoolbar first and Crosswalk Toolbar
Plus second. While I install my versions as updates without problem, it
may be best to remove previous versions.
GA Bibletoolbar 2.1.0 Plus and Crosswalk
Toolbar Plus have been tested with Firefox 2.0.0.x to Firefox 4.x.x
under Windows XP and 7 beta, OS/2, Linux, and Mac OS X.
The only glitch I have found with my
branches, is that under Firefox 3, on occasion installing both
Bibletoolbar and Crosswalk Toolbar Plus causes the Bibletoolbar hotkey
to stop working. This is why I have changed the Crosswalk Toolbar Plus
to use left hand keystrokes for opening the toolbar. In GA Bibletoolbar
2.0.1 Plus I changed the hotley to F9, which appears to have resolved
some of the issues. If Bibletoolbar 3.6.0 is installed, there is no
problem with the hot keys, part of the improved code.
Before my recent customizations, I accessed the British versions of the Contemporary English Version and Today's English Version, using searchplugins for BIBLIJA.net.
The zip also contains searchplugins for accessing the American English
version of the translations on the site. As well in the zip is a
searchplugin to access The New Revised Standard Version (Anglicized Edition) on the oremus Bible Browser site.
A searchplugin for Today's New International Version is in its own zip. Additional searchplugins for the New International Version are in the same zip. All access sites of the International Bible Society.
Other plugins which I have generated or created are for the United Church General Council and Maritime Conference sites and for www.wordstar2.com.
|