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Title: Firefox Search Engine
Post by: 2600 on January 16, 2008, 05:08:01 pm

Not forum related specifically, but I didn't want to crap in the other Search thread.

Anybody know how to make a firefox search engine for BYOAC?

Or in addition, multiple search engines for BYOAC?

Title: Re: Firefox Search Engine
Post by: XyloSesame on January 16, 2008, 05:18:26 pm

good idea. i know ff uses opensearch, so it ought to be simple xml.

hmmm...

Title: Re: Firefox Search Engine
Post by: 2600 on January 17, 2008, 10:24:14 am

At one time I looked into it for a minute, but didn't get it to work.  I was hoping someone here may be a bit familiar with it.

Title: Re: Firefox Search Engine
Post by: 2600 on January 17, 2008, 10:38:57 am

Actually looks like there are some sites that auto generate them for you as well.  I may have to take a look at it again.

Title: Re: Firefox Search Engine
Post by: XyloSesame on January 17, 2008, 12:14:23 pm

DL, unzip, and copy to your searchplugins directory, typically C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins

Mods can add autodiscovery for Firefox

Code: [Select]

<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="searchTitle" href="pluginURL">
More info (http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox)

Title: Re: Firefox Search Engine
Post by: 2600 on January 17, 2008, 03:03:13 pm

Works great for me, thanks.  I installed it into the user plugins directory though.

Couple of questions as I may add some of my own.

1. Did you hand generate these or online tool?
2. I noticed you used google search instead of BYOAC, any reason why?
3. What did you use to generate the icon?  I need to do that, but it's not quite working.

Thanks again.

Title: Re: Firefox Search Engine
Post by: XyloSesame on January 17, 2008, 03:38:45 pm

Quote from: 2600 on January 17, 2008, 03:03:13 pm

Works great for me, thanks.  I installed it into the user plugins directory though.

Couple of questions as I may add some of my own.

1. Did you hand generate these or online tool?
2. I noticed you used google search instead of BYOAC, any reason why?
3. What did you use to generate the icon?  I need to do that, but it's not quite working.

Thanks again.

1. I generated them by hand, following the examples listed on the OpenSearch pages with the exception of the Forum search. I didn't know what variables to use for that, so I installed the OpenSearchFox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3698) extension and cleaned up the XML code. Actually, I wish I had thought to look for an extension first as it would have saved me the time reading about the OpenSearch standards...

2. I wanted to be able to search three areas of BYOAC: a) Forum, b) WIKI, and c) Entire site. The Google site search yields results from everything under the arcadecontrols domain, including anything on the front page like examples, news, etc. Using either the SMF forum search or the WIKI search will not yield results from the main site.

3. Since I don't know the inner-workings of this domain, I opened my bookmarks.html file to find the icon used by the site and copied that info into the code.

Glad to hear it worked for you, and glad you suggested it in the first place!

BTW, I'd recommend installing into your user profile as well...