Howto Firefox Search Hack

[aragorn2909]

I saw this on tv earlier tonight, pretty cool.

copy this into a text editor

<search
version="7.1"
name="Your Site's Title"
description="Search www.yoursite.com"
action="http://www.google.com/search"
searchForm="http://www.google.com"
method="GET"
>

<input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search">
<input name="sitesearch" value="www.yoursite.com">
<input name="q" user="">
</search>

"Your Site's Title" will be the search's name inside Firefox's search bar (I used Ubuntu Forums)
Where it says yoursite, just put the address of the site youd like to search (my example, www.ubuntuforums.org)
Then, save the text document as yoursitesname.src to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/searchplugins
Next, create a 16x16 icon (gif or png), naming it the same as the src file, yoursitesname.gif/png, and saving it also to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/searchplugins
Restart Firefox

[bored2k]

You just saved me a bunch on car insurance !! Nice guide, I was looking like for something like this for animenfo.com

[nickless]

You just saved me a bunch on car insurance !! Nice guide, I was looking like for something like this for animenfo.com
haha me too :D
thx ;)

...and looki what I found searching for the animenfo picture :D
http://mastino.student.utwente.nl/~webmind/projects/mozilla-search/plugin/

ohh and before I forget it, you saw this on tv? :D

[aragorn2909]

ohh and before I forget it, you saw this on tv? :D
G4 in the US. It was a Windows only guide, so I adapted it for here. All credit goes to them for this hack. Apparently, this O'Reilly article (http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/3033) served as the basis for the g4 hack, perhaps all credit goes there? Either way, enjoy.

[arnieboy]

awesome! missed out on the TV show but thanks for the HOWTO!

[bored2k]

haha me too :D
thx ;)

...and looki what I found searching for the animenfo picture :D
http://mastino.student.utwente.nl/~webmind/projects/mozilla-search/plugin/

ohh and before I forget it, you saw this on tv? :D
I'm so loving you man. Oh my word those plugins ROCK ! Did you do them yourself ? If so, how ?

[zarathustra]

I've noticed you can't use the address bar as the "I'm feeling lucky" option on Google - like you can on Windows Firefox. Is there any way to enable this?

[Wolki]

I've noticed you can't use the address bar as the "I'm feeling lucky" option on Google - like you can on Windows Firefox. Is there any way to enable this?

Works here perfectly. Are you using Ubuntu's Firefox?

[zarathustra]

Yes, should I try manually installing it? I don't seem to automatically upgrade extensions on this either.

[kiddo]

Me me me me! I know the solution! :P I've been scratching my head for months until I went to the network preferences, and below my hostname (computer name), REMOVED stuff that I wrote in "domain name". So make it look somewhat like this.

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5267/screenshotnetworksettings6hc.png (http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotnetworksettings6hc.png)

P.s.: that google site search form is a very old trick, but VERY difficult to find on the net... I'll sure copy-paste that in a text file instead of opening my php file everytime

[zarathustra]

Ah, thank you very much! I've always found this useful for when you can't remember web addresses.

[nickless]

I'm so loving you man. Oh my word those plugins ROCK ! Did you do them yourself ? If so, how ?
Yay :D an admin loves me!
Sadly I am not that geeky ;) Only thing I really learned in my short time with Linux is finding solutions via google :razz: