FireFox search
 

In an attempt to reduce the size of my bookmarks I have been converting sites I regularly visit and search for something into search plugins for Firefox.

After I finished I thought others might like to have some of them as well.

Here are the ones for Wow Interface and Curse. Just save either of the files to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\ and reboot Firefox
When you reboot you should have two new items in your search drop down.

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There are already search plugins at Mycroft for WoWInterface and Curse.

I've removed the attached file. Please don't post executables here.

While that is good to know I personally like to know what I'm putting into my browser its quite easy to look at what I posted and know that my search request and IP or anything else aren't going anywhere I didn't want them to.

I know I'm a bit paranoid but I don't like to install any browser add ons that I cant examine and easily remove all traces.

The Mycroft Project, as described on Wikipedia:

As for Mozdev itself:

I think it's pretty safe to say that if you have no issues using Firefox you should probably also have no issues getting search engine plug-ins from Mycroft. :)

Hei thanks, ill use these very much.
I wrote one for WoW-Instincs if you care :)
All addons sites in one is always good I think.

What is that wow-instincts site? I've never heard of it and it doesn't turn up in a search (though, I admit, I didn't look very far through the results).

That ^^ is the one I use. :)

http://fin.instinct.org

Nice little site really.

Logs all updates to the addon sites and provides descriptions and stuff. As well as links to the site to download it from.

It's Fin's site. If you go there directly and click the down arrow next to your search box in Firefox, you'll have an option at the bottom of the list to add it to your search engines as "WoWmods addon search".

That does not work for me .. I have no option to add it to my search engines

EDIT .. nevermind .. got it to work. I was on the main page. Went to the Wow addon page and it was there.

Any chance we can get an Official addon like that here?

Found this a very handy Firefox addon to use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682

Just right-click any search form and you can add it to Firefox. :)

OHHHh - Fin's site. (Not called wow-instinct ;) ) Yeah, I link that a lot. <3 Fin

(direct link: http://fin.instinct.org/wowmods/ )

Nice find ... thanks.

Just tried it here and it worked flawlessly .. even lets you use the icon.

I've been using this for a long time and have since not had the need for any "official" search plugins. It's flawless and I believe should be built into Firefox, as something similar is built into Opera.

Which isn't to say "no thanks" to the efforts, or anything.

Is that the only browser that does that? I swear I've seen a browser with that ability and was thinking it would be awesome to have for Firefox.

(Thanks for the addon, btw.)

I'm not sure. It certainly wouldn't be hard to pull off for any browser, and frankly I'm quite surprised that Firefox doesn't (appear to) have an implementation of a more Opera-esque solution.

Opera's version allows you to plug in a URL and manually locate where the search string should be, giving you a lot of flexibility.