Custom Mozilla Google Search

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Hey! On Attack of the Show's website I found an article on how you can make your own custom Google site search for the Mozilla browser. This may be old news to you all, but here it is anyway..

You'll need put the following text into a new Notepad document:

From http://www.attackoftheshow.com/

Thanks to this O'Reilly article, we were able to figure out how to reverse engineer a Google search and make Firefox's search box search any site - regardless of whether the site has its own search engine.

You'll need put the following text into a new Notepad document:

<search
version="7.1"
name="Your Site's Title"
description="Search www.yoursite.com]
action="http://www.google.com/search"
searchForm="http://www.google.com]
method="GET"
>

<input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search">
<input name="sitesearch" value="www.yoursite.com]>
<input name="q" user="">
</search>

Inside the text file, change yoursite to the address of the site you'd like to search. The line that says "Your Site's Title" will become the search's name inside of the Firefox search box, so name it properly. Then, save the text document as yoursitesname.src to the folder: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins

You'll also need to create a 16 pixel by 16 pixel PNG or GIF image inside of your image editor (Paint, GIMP, Photoshop, etc.). This image will serve as your search icon and must have the same name as your SRC file - yoursitesname.gif or yoursitesname.png. This image must also be saved to the searchplugins folder.

After you copy or save your SRC and GIFNG files to the searchplugins folder, restart Firefox.


This is kinda useful, but something I dislike is that you can't access any blogger sites