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| Add New Firefox Search Engines |
Up in the top right corner of Firefox, there's a handy search box that puts search engines at your fingertips. When you download Firefox, a number of searches (like Google, Yahoo, and Ebay) are included but you can easily add more. There are literally hundreds of search engines available.
The following are some of the most handy search engines when working with phpBB:
You can as a .tar.gz archive (1.30MB - last modified: 25/05/2005, it will open with WinZip and other compression programs). Unpack the archive and copy the plugins you want into the searchplugins directory of your Mozilla installation.
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| What's a Search plugin? |
A search plug-in allows you to access a search engine right from your browser, without having to go to the engine's page first. On Mozilla 1.x, you can access plugins via the Sidebar or the Location Bar. On Mozilla Firefox (formerly known as Firebird), you use the search box on the toolbar. See Jason Lefkowitz's Weblog entry for more details.
Technically, a search plug-in is a text file that tells your computer what information to send to a search engine and how to retrieve the results. A small icon completes the plug-in so that search plug-ins are easily recognized. Curious about how it looks like? Check out the . |
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