Home of the Firefox Navibar Extension

Searching and finding is often the intention of surfing through the internet/intranet but sometimes the web is misguiding, confusing and strenuous. Imagine a page which holds a needed information anywhere on the website but you dont know exactly where it is. So you have to step through a bunch of pages to find that single page you are looking for. A blind man would step around the same way: one step, feeling the surroundings, next step, feeling, next step and so on. Without discriminating blind people wouldn't it be better to see/know what a website has to offer to you when you step into the door the first time?

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Less Searching, More Finding

Navibar is an Opensource extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser to navigate through a website using a tree-representation. Each time you visit a webpage Navibar tries to load a Sitemap(NNS or NEGS) and builds up a hierarchy of the websites content as a browsable tree to let you search and find sooo fast that you need a soda pop to cool down.

And hey, if you are an intranet-developer and have to build websites for rusty people who know how to be petty, try out Navibar! It gives your users a well-known navigation bar like the Windows Explorer and do not surprises with undesirable navigation elements like underlined, colored or -- god forbid -- blinking links. In other words, Navibars purpose is to combine the good old proved tree-navigation-style with new internet technologies.

Webdevelopers: How to get the right Sitemap for the right webpage?

The longer the speech, the less thought:

• You get an overview of all known pages of a website in a browsable tree.
• Go to anywhere from everywhere.
• Centralize your internet/intranet navigation.
• Use the (simple) search functionality to find pages as fast as possible.

Key Features

• Tree based representation of all known pages of a website
• Embedded Context Menus (View Screenshot)
• Simple search on all known pages
• Highly customizable

Of Course, Navibar is not a brand new idea! The old Mozilla Suite had Aurora and there is the Firefox autositemap extension from <mromarkhan@gmail.com>. The Simile project does have interesting "semantic" software like Haystack. Visit them to have a look at similar projects.

Install Navibar 0.10.1

Version 0.10.1 of the Firefox Navibar Extension is a minor bug release. Thanks to Garrett Blits and also Vineet Sinha who give me some hints on bug-like behaviors. For a list of changes, please view the changelog. This release works with Mozilla Firefox 1.1 - 1.6.

Install Navibar 0.10.1 (Firefox 1.1 - 1.6)
date: 2006-03-26
size: 99 KB