Search the Ubuntu Comunity...

[gasparov]

Hi,
here you can find a few ways to add nicer searching capabilities to you browser,they are mostly for firefox

http://www.koders.com/images/Firefox_Logo.gifFirefox

at this moment there are 5 search plugins for firefox regarding ubuntu:

Ubuntuforums
UbuntuWiki
UbuntuCustomizationGuide
UbuntuPackages
UbuntuBugs


you can chose between 2 ways for installing:

Click and Add (http://gas.tranza.it/2006-ubuntu-search/):--->suggested

most common way,you click on the name of the search plugin and it get installed automagically, you can do it here (http://gas.tranza.it/2006-ubuntu-search/)

Manual Install

put the content of the attached gzip file in the searchplugin directory of your firefox profile.The path of the firefox profile is /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.yyy/
where user is your linux user,xxxx si a random number,yyy is your profile specific name,if you haven't changed is "default".
So you have to put them in something like this "home/gas/.mozilla/firefox/23oghrrg1n.default/searchplugins/"



http://cookiecrook.com/img/browser_op7.gifOpera: not tested

for opera you can use JonahRowley's tip @ UbuntuForums (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=156056&postcount=2)



http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/images/epiphany-64.pngOthers/All: not tested

you can use ow50 tip @ Ubuntuforums (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=156071&postcount=4)


To be Done: nicer firefox search icons


have a nice Ubuntu Search

[Puptentacle]

BRILLIANT! Thanks a ton! And thanks to JonahRowley for the Opera tip.

[traherom]

Cool deal. :D

[Heliode]

Very good... just what I needed. Thanks!

[ow50]

On Epiphany you can use smart bookmarks (http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/smartbookmarks.html).

Ubuntu Forums (this only prefills the form these days)
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/search.php?q=%s

Ubuntu Packages
http://packages.ubuntu.com/%s

[Titus A Duxass]

Very useful, thank you.

[Micro Rotors]

Now there is something I cant do without!

[gasparov]

Ubuntu Forums (this only prefills the form these days)
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/search.php?q=%s

Ubuntu Packages
http://packages.ubuntu.com/%s

Hi,
the plugin I made last year for ubuntuforums doesn't work anymore since they canched the forum so I had to change it,the search action has changed slightly
I had to change the code from this

<input name="q" user>

to this

<input name="do=process&query" user >

so for epiphany

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/search.php?do=process&query=%s

[cutOff]

Thanks a lot, it's very useful.

[az]

This is a thing that makes Ubuntu go Zoom!

Does the doc team know about this?

[poofyhairguy]

GREAT GUIDE!

Can I have permission to copy this and sticky it in the beginners forum?

[gasparov]

GREAT GUIDE!

Can I have permission to copy this and sticky it in the beginners forum?

thanks,yes you can :mrgreen:

[henriquemaia]

Nice tip! This is really helpful.

Thanks a lot.

[gasparov]

Ubuntuforums Search is now on mycroft.mozdev.org (http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=ubuntu&submitform=Search)