Google Notebook Extension for Firefox 3.5
Well, I read the reviews for Firefox 3.5 which were favorable to say the least, downloaded it and fired it up. Then the dialogue appeared: The following extensions are incompatible blah blah ……… Google Notebook. I was not happy, I rely on this extension to a level that is stupid. I spend a lot of time online and this extension enabled me to highlight just about anything, right click and save to Google Notebook. The long and short of this is that everything that I have come across that I have deemed interesting or potentially useful is part of one, now huge, searchable database.
Other Google notebook users are much more organized than me and use the tool in a much more organized way, having different notebooks for different topics, tagged and organized. To me this took away the main point which was an ultra fast, ultra convenient tool, that did one thing very very well.
Anyway, enough of the rambling, The author of the blog, Google System has come up with a brilliantly simple way of installing the Google Notebook extension on Firefox 3.5
Download this:
http://dl.google.com/firefox/google-notebook.xpi
The file was at this location yesterday, if it is no longer available here or at the link in the instructions please let me know in the comments.
Then follow these instructions.
* save the extension to your computer: right-click and select “save link as”.
* download 7-zip, an excellent open-source software for archiving files, and install it.
* right-click on the extension (google-notebook.xpi), click on “7-zip” and then on “open archive”. Right-click on “install.rdf”, select “Edit” and replace “3.0.*” with “3.5.*”. Save the file, close Notepad and update the archive.
* now you can drag the .xpi file to your browser and install the extension.
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This is bare bones, go to this site for much more info including a good discussion about the merits of other note taking software and a link and instructions for Internet Explorer users.
Google Notebook is being discontinued although it will still be available for existing users, Google argue that Google Docs have made it redundant. This is crap, they occupy very different niches. The company doesn’t get much wrong but this is one decision that should be reversed, after all Google are all about the concept of the “Cloud”, i.e. remote applications and data storage, and it doesn’t get much more cloud than Google Notebook.
To avoid the bad digital signature warning and allow it to install, remove the manifest.mf file in the META-INF subdirectory in the archive.
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David
Apologies for taking so long to reply. I am not sure what too suggest. I haven’t had to install the notebook extension since I wrote this.
I am currently using Firefox 3.5.5 and notebook is working fine.
This page does get a lot of traffic so maybe someone else can advise.
Good luck!
If anyone
Sorry i can’t install it,the firefox suggests the signing could not be verified
Thx for your best information.Next trend in computing is the introduction of the super compact netbook computer which giving the user a portable.:)
My response exactly when I came across the original article.
Agree completely, notebook is the killer app for me. My memory is not the best and the ability to highlight, note and then search has really saved my neck more than once.
I hoped that they’d take it a stage further and integrate it’s search function with gmail and Google calender but I guess that won’t happen now.
ThankyouThankyouThankyou!!!!! So happy to have the tool back. But I still don’t know why:
1- Google ever dropped the tool in the first place.
2- The extension was wired to self destruct just because the version number is in excess of 3.
Still looking for an alternative.