Mozilla FireFox search plugin for PerlMonks

hi there!

i just put together a little search-plugin for everybody's (and that includes you!) favourite browser, allowing you to simply type something into FireFox's search-box, and get our beloved monastery's results back.
all you have to do:

download the .zip file here

unzip it to your FireFox's 'searchplugins' directory

restart FireFox

it works for me, so it should work for you - if not, let me know.

BTW: you DO know about the very useful CPAN searchplugin, or?
Just go to here, type in 'CPAN', click on the first link, and never be flamed about not searching CPAN before posting here ever again!

hope that helps,

-schweini

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Re: Mozilla FireFox search plugin for PerlMonks by hossman (Prior) on Apr 22, 2004 at 05:40 UTC
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention mozilla keyword bookmarks -- which can include javascript to do funky things with the input before submitting. (They're handy for those of us that don't like using the Sidebar. I prefer to just type "`cpan my search terms`" into the location bar.)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Mozilla FireFox search plugin for PerlMonks by bassplayer (Monsignor) on Apr 22, 2004 at 14:24 UTC
Here's one too (from back in the old Firebird days)... bassplayer	[reply]
Re: Mozilla FireFox search plugin for PerlMonks by diotalevi (Canon) on Apr 22, 2004 at 21:33 UTC
Does this handle Super Search? I already have bookmarklets for those simple keyword searches.	[reply]
Re: Re: Mozilla FireFox search plugin for PerlMonks by schweini (Friar) on Apr 23, 2004 at 10:07 UTC
nope - no SuperSearch, sorry. I wouldn't know how to include all (or any) of SuperSearch's options in FireFox's searchbox....and i figured just sending the query to a 'default' SuperSearch would've caused unnecessary serverload....	[reply]