Hello griffin

re 1) "instead of having to close the Search tag and retyping our search for an item again," you can just ctrl-click and bring up the Contextual Menu options. Try this for 2) browse host also

re 3) I found resizing the various parts of each pane pretty easy to customize the space to needed to display the results, once I found where to click-and-drag the dividers

re 4) You can block those hosts (search for "Awesome" for many tips on this irritating problem). The next version (expected this week) should allow ctrl-click blocking

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