David.R.Gilson

Tip of the week October 31st 2008

Oct 31

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This is a series of posts I’m going to make. Every Friday (for an decided period!) I’ll post up a small tip that might help you with your every day tech.

Today’s tip is for Firefox:
If you ever wish you had a search plug-in for the website you’re on, you might be able to get one quicker than you think.

Of course, you can try the main repository, roll your own or even hack Firefox’s about:config page. Before you run off and do that, read on …

Some websites have already made a search plug in available from their own site. Click the drop-down list of search engines in Firefox, if there’s any available you’ll see some entries at the bottom of your list, prefixed with the word “Add”. See here