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plug-in for
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developed by David Watanabe.


Overview

Inquisitor replaces the Google search bar in
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or
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with a predictive-typing feature that can be used for the
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search engine, as well as other sites like
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,
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or
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. It is also available as an Ajax-powered web application, for use on browsers other than Safari, including
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and
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machines.


Camino

Inquisitor is only available for Safari as of the release of Inquisitor 3.0 beta 1, due to the small percentage of Camino users using it. The last supported version of Inquisitor for Camino was 2.6.


Mac OS X Leopard

Some of the developer builds of Mac OS X Leopard removed support for Input Managers, leading to concerns that Inquisitor may not function in Leopard. However, the shipping build of Leopard supports Input Managers when installed with
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credentials. On October 28, 2007, Inquisitor 3.0 (v49) was released, with a Leopard compliant installer. Inquisitor now currently supports Safari 3.x and 4.x. On May 9, 2009,
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acquired inquisitor.


iPhone

There is also an iPhone app of Inquisitor. It is available at the App Store for free. It was released on February 9, 2009, for iTunes USA users. The latest version is 1.0, and has not been updated before.


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