Firefox Search?

[thomas.schaefer]

Has anyone made a search engine plug-in to add Thunderstone to the list of searches you can do from the firefox search box? As you may know, they have different search engines you can plug in and this lets you use the firefox search box to search different engines (Wikipedia, google, etc). I wanted to see if someone already did this and would be willing to share before I started it myself.

Thanks,

Tom Schaefer

[watterson]

Tom,

I made one for me here at work. I use linux and placed two files in the /usr/local/bin/firefox/searchplugins/ directory. One file is the source, and the other is the image (jpg) for the search box. I named them stsci-external. The code I used for the .src file is:

<search
version="8.0"
name="STScI Search-External"
description="STScI Search-External"
action="http://search.stsci.edu/texis/search"
searchForm="http://www.stsci.edu"
method="GET"
>

<input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search">
<input name="query" user="">

</search>

Hope that helps,

Mike

[thomas.schaefer]

Mike,

Thanks. It sure does. I had already started to make this after a couple of days. I added one extra feature to process the search results in the firefox search sidebar pane (I guess with the right plugin as this was in Mozilla). If you enable Sherlock on your search and include the following text before the closing search tag:

<interpret
resultListStart="<!-- RESULT LIST START -->"
resultListEnd="<!-- RESULT LIST END -->"
resultItemStart="<!-- RESULT ITEM START -->"
resultItemEnd="<!-- RESULT ITEM END -->"
>

I'm working on the plugin so it can be installed with one-click. I will post the code when I finish.

Thanks again,

Tom