Saturday, October 25, 2008

Custom Search Tool in Firefox

There are search engines which you visit/use frequently and are not listed in Firefox plugin page, so what you will do? Create your own simple :

I will making a Google Linux search tool :
  • Open any text editor and paste this code :
    <search 
    name="Google Linux"
    method="GET"
    action="http://www.google.co.in/linux"
    queryCharset="utf-8"
    >
    <input name="q" user>
    </search>

  • You can add more parameters other than query like "Search within a domain".
    Add
    <input name="sitesearch" value="gnu.org">
    below
    <input name="q" user>
    Just carefully observe the URL after you hit a search for the parameter name/value and keep adding for a filtered search.

  • Save the file as filename.src (I am using glinux.src) to ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/searchplugins/

    TIP : To display icon next to your search engine create a 16X16 PNG or GIF image and save it in the same folder as glinux.src and name it glinux.png or glinux.gif as per your file format

  • Restart Firefox, your source will be compiled and converted into a .XML file automatically and what next! use your engine

Also check : Mycroft Project

Attached few of my favorites : search.tar.gz

8 comments:

Maitreya said...

Very good. I liked it.

seshu said...

Impressive

DealsGhost
www.dealsghost.com

Anonymous said...

Really nice

http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress

hELLraIser..(iNcOgniTiOn) said...

gr8 stuff! digit shud make u their editor haan!

Anant Khaitan said...

Thanks everyone for their commento ..

and eN you are really good at flattering stuffs..

hELLraIser..(iNcOgniTiOn) said...

hehe..
\\\blushes\\\

hELLraIser..(iNcOgniTiOn) said...

oye mplayer mein can u do live streaming??

Anant Khaitan said...

Perhaps yes, because when you play a media file using mplayer-firefox-plugin it actually performs the streaming thing.. So it must be true for the main application too.. You may try this:

$ mplayer http://path/to/video/video.avi