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GoDaddy and FireFox

by Jason Bean on January 8th, 2008

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Okay, time for a short rant. Why in the world doesn’t GoDaddy (or someone else have a Firefox extension to let you quickly check availability of a domain name. It would be great if it would even help you manage your existing domains, hosting and e-mail.

Internet Explorer 7 lets me add a GoDaddy search tool!

You can add a GoDaddy button to your Google Toolbar, but I see nothing available that directly integrates with Firefox. Irritating.

Okay, I’m done.

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10 opinions for GoDaddy and FireFox

  • S. S.
    Jan 8, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    There don’t appear to be any domain availability searches for the firefox browser, but there are many ‘whois’ search engines available to add. (the good ones, at least) can at least tell you if something is potentially available if there’s no whois info available on a domain.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=whois&status=4

    I’ll do just about anything to avoid having to use IE

  • Anne
    Jan 9, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    I added a Godaddy.com domain name search to my Firefox browser. It should appear in the right hand corner of your screen everytime you visit the Go Daddy website. You just click it and that is about it! It will come up in your search engine tool bar.

  • Jason Bean
    Jan 9, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    Yeah, I’ve been waiting on that to pop up, because I’d thought I’d seen it before, but it’s not displaying again for me.

  • Anne
    Jan 14, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    Clear your cookies and then go to http://www.godaddy.com and you should see it on the right hand side in Firefox.

  • MICK
    Jun 4, 2008 at 6:07 am

    I keep clicking on the button to add the GoDaddy Search to my Firefox Browser, but it never does download. I have tried dozens of times and it never works. And yes, I do have the latest version of Firefox (in case you were wondering).

  • Jason Bean
    Jun 4, 2008 at 7:22 am

    I’ve been experiencing the same issue. I don’t know what the problem is there.

  • Angel Fermin
    Jun 4, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    I trying to do the same in my Apple PowerBook G4 but nothing happens

    I have it working in my PC-Vista this search engine from Godaddy.com

    Well i hope that you find a solution

    Regards,

  • km
    Jun 7, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    It used to work. The new version of firefox somehow broke the thousands of search extensions.

  • Wendy Piersall
    Jul 14, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    I was going to suggest that as well, was just searching for a link to send my own readers to. I have it installed and it works with FF3, but for the life of me I can’t remember how I found it to install it. :(

    Keep looking - it’s out there!

  • Burgo
    Aug 11, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    Yeah, I have the same issue. Installed it on my old firefox, but when I upgraded it appears that it was wiped off. Now when I go back to Godaddy, I’m not offered the same option to add it back… and Anne, I *have* cleared my cookies, but I still don’t see the option :(

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