Open up Firefox and take a look at the top right search box. Wherever you are on the Web, you can enter a search term in the Search bar and receive immediate answers from the search engine you’ve chosen.
Now, since the very beginning of Firefox – Mycroft has been the key repository for Firefox search plugins. Well, now you don’t have to wait any longer for someone to create a plugin for your favourite website…
OpenSearchFox is a great new extension which helps you create your own search plugin in 2 simple step:
- Right-click ANY searchbox on ANY page
- Click “Add OpenSearch plugin”.
…and that’s it!
Have an interesting search plugin which you rolled? Share it with us in the comments!
you might want to check out how to create an autodiscovery search at http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2006/10/how-to-create-an-autodiscovery-blog-search-for-web-browser/
Thanks LiewCF, Just for other readers understanding, Firefox 2 and IE7 comes with an open standard where webmasters can let visitors add a search plugin option to browsers. The extension described in the post above can be used to create search plugins for ANY site – regardless of whether the webmaster implements autodiscovery of their search plugin or not.
Well I like Firepos thatn IE