Customizing Firefox Search.

[Mat Booth]

On 14 February 2013 12:03, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> Any know of a way to build a customized search into firefox.  Basically I want
> to setup a search pull down which is hard coded to a particular site.
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> For example, add a menu item called
> MyBlog
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> And what ever I put into the search window ends up going to google as
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> $SEARCHTEXT site:danwalsh.livejournal.com
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Plugins for the search widget in the top-right of Firefox uses the
OpenSearch standard. You can just create a little XML file that
describes the search action you want, and put it on your website and
then anyone can install it and search your site with it. Here's a
guide to creating an OpenSearch plugin:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox

Here's an example of one in the wild:

http://dictionary.reference.com/opensearch_desc.xml

If you go to http://dictionary.reference.com, you can install the
plugin by clicking the drop-down in the Firefox search widget and
choosing "Add..."

Hope that helps.

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Mat Booth
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