View Full Version : FireFox Search Plugin


wwest
11-08-2006, 09:45 PM
This is for all of us who use Firefox on a PC.

Whoever doesnt run firefox. go to www.getfirefox.com (http://www.getfirefox.com) and try it, its free :)

Anyways, how would you like to be able to type something into the little search box on the top right side of firefox and have it search Talkingreef? Sounds to good to be true. well its not. :) Click on the link below and simply double click it. It will do all the work for you..

http://www.talkingreef.com/misc/talkingreef-FF.exe (http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/../misc/talkingreef-FF.exe)

If you have any problems post it here and i will try my best to fix it. Also after you click on the file you will only see it for less than a second.. I hope everyone enjoy's it and finds it useful.

doctorthompson
11-09-2006, 09:10 AM
heh, same issue as the Flock plugin (which worked for me in Firefox 2 by the way), you're missing the "-FF" in the link. :)

wwest
11-09-2006, 09:14 AM
Ok its fixed lol. thanks for the heads up
:)

doctorthompson
11-09-2006, 09:17 AM
OK, now spell "talking" correctly :D

"talkgreef-FF.exe" doesn't exist

wwest
11-09-2006, 09:21 AM
What a way to start the day. lol I cant type today for some reason lol thanks again :)

doctorthompson
11-09-2006, 09:22 AM
OK, I'll stop now :)

Rob
11-09-2006, 01:25 PM
just FYI, i do not believe this will work with Firefox v2.0 since the way the search plugins are written is different

wwest
11-09-2006, 01:29 PM
Actually i thought about that and i downloaded 2.0 and it works fine for some reason. I noticed that the files they produce are .xml but for some reason my files are working as well.

And i must say Firefox 2.0 is pretty cool :)

wwest
11-09-2006, 01:29 PM
Oh yea, Firefox 2.0 even has a built in spell checker. :)

doctorthompson
11-09-2006, 02:41 PM
Actually i thought about that and i downloaded 2.0 and it works fine for some reason. I noticed that the files they produce are .xml but for some reason my files are working as well.

And i must say Firefox 2.0 is pretty cool :)

Yeah, FF2 will convert older .src plugins to the new opensearch xml format on the fly.

Rob, if ever feel like putting up a simple php page to query common words out of the posts we could have search term autocompletion in FF2 as well -- although that would probably make a nice spike in the mysql cpu usage.

Rob
11-09-2006, 10:15 PM
awesome, i didn't know about the auto convert thing, thats cool..
i use FF on my work PC, but on my Mac im still using safari.

but if there is a lot of interest in this search thing we can expand its capabilities.. :)

kj_yoda
11-10-2006, 10:15 AM
Very cool addition... thanks guys