Archive for the 'firefox' Category

Add OpenSearch to your site in five minutes
Thursday, February 8th, 2007

You have a website.

Google makes a pretty good search engine.

Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 both support OpenSearch as a way of customizing the browser’s search box.

And you can make all three work together in five minutes. No programming required.

Check this out:

Step 1: Save the template

Use the template below to create a file on [...]

Firefox. Reloaded, again, and again, and again.
Thursday, January 18th, 2007

If Firefox/Linux hangs on me one more time, I swear I’m going to install Windows.

I’m that frustrated.

(Logo used with permission from Mozilla.org.)

Search suggestions in Firefox
Saturday, May 27th, 2006

I notice that the milestone release of Firefox 2 has implemented a mechanism for “Google Suggest“-style auto-completions right in the browser’s search box. Very neat feature.

I haven’t pinged Gavin yet about whether or not this feature will be exposed in the new search plugin model. This document hints that it might be; [...]