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[1] Submitted by: Archades on Tuesday December 9th 2003

just wondering if there was a way to add search options such as ie's quicktools version of typing gg searchvalue in teh address bar to search google and add other search engines, by using the %s tag like http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s

email is kenshin_blade@hotmail.com if u could gimme any details on doing this

[2] Submitted by: mat @ mycroft on Thursday December 11th 2003

The answer you seek can be found here:

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

Enjoy!

[3] Submitted by: Toralf on Saturday January 24th 2004

I'm having encoding problems in a default plugin I'm writing. Looks like the text is converted to UTF-8, which it isn't when submitting text in a form (so the form handler doesn't understand this encoding.)

[4] Submitted by: Toralf on Saturday January 24th 2004

That should be "custom plugin", of course...

To illustrate what I mean, I tried entering the single letter � (aring) in the search site's form and got an URL of the form

http://...?OPP=%E5

When entering the same letter in the search area with text directed to the same site, I got

http://...?OPP=%C3%A5

[5] Submitted by: mat @ mycroft on Sunday February 8th 2004

Toralf,

Please see http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/searchtag.html#queryEncoding for details.

[6] Submitted by: Lars on Friday February 20th 2004

For those of use who groove on tabbed browser, you might consider flipping the order of TITLE element for the deepdocs pages. For example, this page has the title "mozdev.org - mycroft: deepdocs/quickstart", which shows up as "mozdev.org -..." in the tab rather than the more useful "quickstart/..."

[7] Submitted by: tonio on Monday March 22nd 2004

When I use the source id tag:

I get an error on the search page. When I remove it, it works fine. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[8] Submitted by: mat @ mycroft on Monday March 22nd 2004

Re: [7]

Though it is not likely to change anything, you can try moving the source id tag to a different place of order in the plugin and see if that helps. Most likely you will need to remove it and state the reason why it is not there, when you submit the plugin. We like to let site owners know we are generating traffic with Mozilla-search, but if it can't be used, it isn't necessary.

[9] Submitted by: mawi on Tuesday March 23rd 2004

any example of list start end tags? is that from HTML source or?

m (at)... m|a|w|i (dot) o|r|g|

[10] Submitted by: joewxboy on Thursday May 13th 2004

Some search CGIs require a cookie to be present. What code can we use to present a cookie when we can program in the cookie name and value?

[11] Submitted by: mat @ mycroft on Friday May 14th 2004

Re: [10]

Mozilla-Search will not work with cookies for general use(sharing). You can however, MOST often, get away with hard coding your personal cookie information in the action tag.

[12] Submitted by: NiarKal on Thursday May 20th 2004

Is there a way to make the result page open in another tab ?

[13] Submitted by: Kete on Saturday May 29th 2004

NiarKal, did target="_blank" work? (hard to tell where it would go) Also, end users can just hit alt+enter.

I don't know where to get the information that Firefox needs to interpret the results. I'm writing code for an AltaVista Babel Fish Translator for Russian to English.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[14] Submitted by: DeleteMan on Saturday May 29th 2004

Interested in neatening up the huge list of mycroft plugins on FireBird 0.8. Any method for deleting search items?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[15] Submitted by: Chris on Monday May 31st 2004

DeleteMan,

Take a look at:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Firefox_:_FAQs_:_Uninstall_Search_Plugins

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[16] Submitted by: Kev on Saturday June 5th 2004

On the BBCi News results search each item is contained within

a single result

How can i specify that `` as the quotes would presumably break the `

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[17] Submitted by: tricki on Thursday June 24th 2004

Any simple way to reorganise icons in the search bar?

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

[18] Submitted by: tricki on Thursday June 24th 2004

Sorry had user agent switched to IE. Would I have to delete and add again in order I want, or is there ini file I could change, if so, which.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

[19] Submitted by: tricki on Thursday June 24th 2004

Sorry had user agent switched to IE. Would I have to delete and add again in order I want, or is there ini file I could change, if so, which.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

[20] Submitted by: localhost on Monday June 28th 2004

In reply to post #17.
I asume you mean the order in which the search engines and there favicons are shown. They are in a alfabetic order and I believe theycan't be changed. Unless, of course, you dive in the source code and look for this feature.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[21] Submitted by: Ele on Saturday July 3rd 2004

The list of searches added to the search button at the top of firefox is definitely *not* alphabetical. It's the order they were added.

It would be *really* nice to be able to change this.

If it were alphabetical, then "amazonbooks" would be at the top, instead of Google.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[22] Submitted by: Andrew on Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:46:55 -0400

Try reorganizing the .src files (and their icons) in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

[23] Submitted by: MB34 on Monday 12th July 2004 at 12:12 -0400

This is my first try at creating a search plugin.
I'm not really sure why this one wouldn't work.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; MyIE2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

[24] Submitted by: MB34 on Monday 12th July 2004 at 12:15 -0400

This thing didn't post any of my src file, you can get it here:
66.45.227.243/~austin1/moz_tamracka.src

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; MyIE2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

[25] Submitted by: Mat @ Mycroft on Monday 12th July 2004 at 18:41 -0400

Re: [23] Submitted by: MB34

Not a bad start. The most likely reason you are not getting anywhere is that the method of Post is not supported.

Running it through validation produced the following:

Errors

1. Method 'POST' is not 'GET'.
2. Update filename'mozilla_tamaraka.src' does not match updateIcon filename 'myplugin.png'.

Warnings

1. Update URI 'http://localhost/mozilla_tamaraka.src' does not point to Mycroft plugins directory.

I also noticed:

1. There should be only one search tag. - Delete the first line. The tag was left open anyway.
2. I'm pretty sure that the interpreter will think your second quote on an interpret line is the end of that result variable.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040712

[26] Submitted by: Mat @ Mycroft on Monday 12th July 2004 at 19:18 -0400

Also,

input type="text" name="SearchFor" size="34"

should look more like

input name="SearchFor" user=""

as shown above.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040712

[27] Submitted by: Youri on Monday 9th August 2004 at 22:04 -0400

ok, started today with my first plugin and just finished #12 :D

they all work fine, exept for my sidebar... installed advance search in firefox 0.9.2 but the window stays empty. Anyone knows the answer so I can fully test the plugins and submit them?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[28] Submitted by: Youri on Monday 9th August 2004 at 22:21 -0400

ok, started today with my first plugin and just finished #12 :D

they all work fine, exept for my sidebar... installed advance search in firefox 0.9.2 but the window stays empty. Anyone knows the answer so I can fully test the plugins and submit them?

Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

[29] Submitted by: babailiica on Sunday 15th August 2004 at 13:57 -0400

Hey, why only GET method is supported? There is many search engines which use POST method!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[30] Submitted by: eli on Tuesday 17th August 2004 at 09:55 -0400

GET is much simpler.

It would be really nice to have the option of POST, tho.

Also, see the format of the built-in search on php.net:
www.php.net/searchitem (where there is no query string)
Is there any way to do this with Mozilla-search?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[31] Submitted by: T S Mahadevan on Wednesday 18th August 2004 at 11:28 -0400

Is there anyway to prevent the "=" sign from getting prefixed to the search term?

The format for Google Glossary is "q=define:searchterm". Since the "=" sign gets prefixed to the search term, Google searches for "=searchterm" and not "searchterm".

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[32] Submitted by: fridjof on Monday 23rd August 2004 at 00:02 -0400

The problem that you can't use POST forms can easily be solved with a little (java)scripting. Just point the search extension to a html file that automatically fills in and sends a form using the POST method.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[33] Submitted by: chpatrick on Saturday 28th August 2004 at 13:23 -0400

Does HTML code work with list/itemStart/End attributes?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[34] Submitted by: jerry clark on Sunday 29th August 2004 at 11:44 -0400

Good idea

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[35] Submitted by: Colin on Thursday 2nd September 2004 at 10:08 -0400

IRT #21: When you first add search plugins they're appended onto the end of the list. Next time you restart the browser they're displayed in alphabetical order. However please remember that Upper case letters come first so "Google" would be displayed before 'amazonbooks'

If you don't like the order open up the search plugins (the .src files in the "searchplugins" folder - they're text you can open them in any text editor) and set the "name" field to start with a number. E.g.

[SEARCH
version="7.1"
name="1. Amazon Books"

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[36] Submitted by: Evan McLain on Friday 3rd September 2004 at 13:22 -0400

QuickSearches (http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html) should be integrated with the Search plugin functionality. From an end user perspective, they pretty much do the same thing...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[37] Submitted by: ynard on Saturday 18th September 2004 at 10:04 -0400

Why, oh why there isn't support for POST?

Now it's necessary to make the trick w/ php or javascript... :(

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[38] Submitted by: P on Monday 20th September 2004 at 07:06 -0400

What's that trick with php or javascript? I don't know any of these..

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[39] Submitted by: Chandy on Thursday 23rd September 2004 at 09:06 -0400

POST would also likely mot work for ASP.NET sites as the POST would be seen as not coming from a valid location on the site.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[40] Submitted by: Danno on Wednesday 29th September 2004 at 09:51 -0400

Is it possible to create a search plugin for a company intranet search page? the site is behind a firewall and it's not public access. I wrote the search script, but I can't figure out how to add it without adding it to mycroft first. Any ideas? Thanks

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[41] Submitted by: ltwally on Thursday 30th September 2004 at 11:06 -0400

I never saw an answer to the very first question... is there a way to build a plugin to use simple url based searches? (ie. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s)

I mean... it's all well and good that you can build a plugin with all these "fancy" options... but if all I want is a simple plugin that does what TweakUI lets you do with IE.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[42] Submitted by: Glamdring on Thursday 30th September 2004 at 16:16 -0400

Here's the javascript trick (feel free to improve since I'm no web/javascript guru):

1. Under /searchplugins create a directory called POST Forms.

2. In that directory place an html file that is similar to this one:

function fillForm()
{
var re = new RegExp("=");
re(document.URL);
document.forms[0].search_keywords.value = RegExp.rightContext;
document.forms[0].submit();
}

myForm.html

3: Now make a .src file that does a GET on this file. Here's a sample:

# Created by ~:Glamdring:~

4: Create your .png file.
5: ...
6: Profit!!!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[43] Submitted by: Glamdring on Thursday 30th September 2004 at 16:21 -0400

Gah!! Didn't see the NO HTML allowed sign. <HTML>test<HTML>

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[44] Submitted by: Glamdring on Thursday 30th September 2004 at 16:31 -0400

One last try with all the html '' replaced with '[' and ']' respectively. Forgive the multiple posting please.

Here's what you do to get the javascript trick working:

1: Create a directory under [firefox install]/searchplugins called POST_Forms
2: Create an HTML file with the following contents:

[html]
[script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"]
function fillForm()
{
var re = new RegExp("=");
re(document.URL);
document.forms[0].search_keywords.value = RegExp.rightContext;
document.forms[0].submit();
}
[/script]
[title]your name goes here[/title]
[body onLoad="fillForm()" bgcolor="#1d1c19"]
[form method="POST"
action="http://url.of.post.search.you.want"]
[input type="hidden" name="search_keywords"/]
[input type="hidden" name="search_terms" value="any"/]
[input type="hidden" name="search_author" value=""/]
[input type="hidden" name="search_forum" value="-1"/]
[input type="hidden" name="search_time" value="0"/]
[input type="hidden" name="search_fields" value="all"/]
[input type="hidden" name="search_cat" value="-1"/]
[input type="hidden" name="sort_by" value="0"/]
[input type="hidden" name="sort_dir" value="DESC"/]
[input type="hidden" name="show_results" value="topics"/]
[input type="hidden" name="return_chars" value="200"/]
[/form]
[/body]
[/html]

3: Change form names and values as appropriate,
4: Save this file as myForm.html
5: Next create your .src file in the searchplugins directory. It will look
something like this:

# Created by ~:Glamdring:~
[SEARCH
version = "7.1"
name="POST Redirector"
description="PR"
method="GET"
action="file://C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/searchplugins/POST_Forms/myForm.html"
]

[input name="search_keywords" user]

[/SEARCH]

6: Save it as myForm.src
7: Create your myForm.png

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[45] Submitted by: Tom on Thursday 30th September 2004 at 16:54 -0400

Hey experts, can someone please come up with a search-plugin for Mozilla/Firefox for clusty.com ?

Just took a look at clusty.com, r0x. But unfortunately a search-plugin does not yet exist. I can't do it, am more kind of an "end-user" but I think, if you are fast, you can become famous with it. Would download and use it immediately as many others!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[46] Submitted by: Danno on Friday 1st October 2004 at 10:05 -0400

I love that site though the name stinks! Anyway, I just submitted a plugin for Clusty yesterday (9/30)! I even tested it first! I don't know how long it takes to show up in the list. I was hoping it would be there by now?!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[47] Submitted by: Tom on Saturday 2nd October 2004 at 09:14 -0400

That was quick -:-) But Clusty.com plugin is still not yet there, can you put it online somewhere else if it does not show up within a few days? Thanks.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

[48] Submitted by: Raven on Saturday 2nd October 2004 at 12:41 -0400

Give the guys some time and trade via email until they reviewed and posted it.. and use the request form for requests - i for one do work requests and send them in whenver i'm bored.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[49] Submitted by: Tom on Monday 4th October 2004 at 12:50 -0400

Seems that Clusty.com reacted on my (or other) email, I just saw "Mozilla Search Plugin" on main Websearch-page there... Let's hope it will make it also to mycroft-site.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

[50] Submitted by: kiki on Tuesday 19th October 2004 at 23:12 -0400

I'm trying to create a search for www.centerfuse.com

The site uses frames and I can't seem to set up the search to work correctly, can somebody check out the site and maybe give me some pointers.

(once at the site, go to "message board ---> search messages") I would like to be able to search the "message" field.

Thank you

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[51] Submitted by: Star Taymar on Wednesday 20th October 2004 at 20:10 -0400

I've got a few searchplugins done OK, but this one is giving me gyp. The source for the search box shows three elements, but the plugin won't work however I try to wangle it. These are the elements (ID/Name/Type/Value):

system hidden 0
sub hidden Search
searchtextbox list text Title Search

What should I put into the .SRC code?

Thanks for any help :)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[52] Submitted by: yasart on Thursday 21st October 2004 at 04:00 -0400

Hi everybody,
I felt that I can use this search plugin to open an address that has an url depending on variables. I mean the address of the page is
http://thedomainofpage/yyyy/mm/dd.html
yyyy standing for year in 2004 format
mm standing for month in two digits
and dd for days of month in two digits.
What I want to do is to write dd mm yyyy on search box and to be directed to the address below:
http://thedomainofpage/yyyy/mm/dd.html
I felt I can do this with mozilla firefox but I don't know how to do.
Can you help me with this problem?
Thanks a lot in advance.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[53] Submitted by: Colm Gallagher on Tuesday 26th October 2004 at 06:14 -0400

In Reply to [31]

>Is there anyway to prevent the "=" sign
>from getting prefixed to the search term?
>The format for Google Glossary is
>"q=define:searchterm". Since the "=" sign
> gets prefixed to the search term, Google
> searches for "=searchterm" and not "searchterm".

What to do is to add two q's. They are concatinated together to generate a single query. The first one will take the fixed value of the google feature like define: or site: or whatever and the second one will take user=""

<input name="q" value="define:"/>
<input name="q" user=""/>

My favourite search is to search the site experts exchange using google so that the answers are not hidden from non-subscribers:
<input name="q" value="site:www.experts-exchange.com"/>
<input name="q" user=""/>

enjoy

;-)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

[54] Submitted by: PeckerSnot on Monday 8th November 2004 at 01:45 -0500

This is not exactly what I'd hoped for....
Would be nice to have a REVERSE PHONE SEARCH for U.S.A.

:)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

[55] Submitted by: John A on Wednesday 10th November 2004 at 23:11 -0500

For the post redirector, change the fillForm script to...

[script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"]
function fillForm()
{
var re = new RegExp("=");
re(document.URL);
document.forms[0].search_keywords.value = unescape(RegExp.rightContext);
document.forms[0].submit();
}
[/script]

...and you're halfway there. Now what's the easiest way to change those plusses to spaces in multi-word searches? Any way to get the browser to just escape them in the first place instead of making them plusses?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[56] Submitted by: John A on Wednesday 10th November 2004 at 23:24 -0500

The post redirector trick also breaks the back button, and I'm not sure how well it will work with sidebar result display.

I think support for the post method is needed.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[57] Submitted by: Flex on Thursday 18th November 2004 at 07:05 -0500

I try to make a Search PlugIn for the Wien-Stadtplansuche
http://www.wien.at./stadtplan

you have to fill 2 forms to get a valid result. so plz can someone take a look and give me some hints. i am more an end user so plz keep it easy ;-)

thx from all vienna people who will use this in the future ,-)

greetings
Flex

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

[58] Submitted by: Mitchguy on Thursday 18th November 2004 at 19:56 -0500

I've submitted plugins for snap and ticketmaster. It has been a week and a half, and no reply from anyone. How long does it usually take on average to show up?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

[59] Submitted by: dom on Friday 19th November 2004 at 09:37 -0500

How do I go about creating a search plugin specific for Invision Power Board forums? Those forums tend to use different HTTP variables compared to most search engines. Any help will be be appreciated.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[60] Submitted by: rebel69 on Saturday 20th November 2004 at 14:52 -0500

Mitchguy, be prepared for an extremely long wait. I first submitted my plugins on July 28, and have never received any response.

I asked the wait-time question myself last month, and never saw a response to that either.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[61] Submitted by: localhost on Tuesday 23rd November 2004 at 13:26 -0500

Hi,

Been away from Mycroft for a long time now, but I'll try to pick it up again. Not sure yet if I should start on the new request or the old ones. I guess there will be a lot of double or triple request because of the long waiting times.

--
Jarno de Wit
Contributor
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[62] Submitted by: Chris on Sunday 28th November 2004 at 15:23 -0500

Mitchguy,
How did you get the sidebar working for snap? I was working on it before and had a great deal of trouble figuring out their page generation.

Chris
elfan[at]db-forge[dot]com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[63] Submitted by: Karthekeyan on Tuesday 30th November 2004 at 09:55 -0500

What is a sourceid?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[64] Submitted by: Chris on Tuesday 30th November 2004 at 17:21 -0500

Karthekeyan,
"Next you will need to include the sourceid. This line lets webmasters and site administrators know that people are using Mozilla-Search to search their websites. Simply copy this line in to your plugin file:

"

It just away of letting webmasters know where the search is coming from.

Chris
elfan[at]db-forge[dot]com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[65] Submitted by: Marcus on Saturday 4th December 2004 at 06:54 -0500

Patch for POST to GET redirection...

"[44] Submitted by: Glamdring on Thursday 30th September 2004 at 16:31 -0400"

$ diff -u PostRedirGet.html.orig PostRedirGet.html
--- PostRedirGet.html.orig 2004-12-04 12:45:26 +0100
+++ PostRedirGet.html 2004-12-04 12:45:59 +0100
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
{
var re = new RegExp("=");
re(document.URL);
-document.forms[0].search_keywords.value = RegExp.rightContext;
+document.forms[0].search_keywords.value = unescape(RegExp.rightContext);
document.forms[0].submit();
}

$

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/0.8 (Debian package 1.0-2)

[66] Submitted by: Story Weaver on Sunday 5th December 2004 at 08:01 -0500

I only use Firefox. I've written my first ever search plugin, but it would be good if it could be tested on Mozilla, Netscape etc. before I upload it to the mycroft database.

Is there anyway I can do this?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[67] Submitted by: Slash on Sunday 5th December 2004 at 10:24 -0500

I've got one question to Glamdring (post number 44)

Where i can put name of input to automatic fill ?
For example i try to search site where is something like that

Thank you in advance

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[68] Submitted by: Slash on Sunday 5th December 2004 at 10:26 -0500

...something like that

[input type="text" name="myfield"]

Sorry..

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[69] Submitted by: Chris on Tuesday 7th December 2004 at 19:53 -0500

Story Weaver,
Make use of the validator ( http://www.mindzilla.com/auditform.php ). Also there is no reason why you can not have mozilla installed on the same box as firefox.

Chris
elfan[at]db-forge[dot]com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[70] Submitted by: Story Weaver on Wednesday 8th December 2004 at 11:56 -0500

Thanks, Chris. Yeah, I'm afraid I found the validator shortly after that post. I'm sorry if I wasted your time through my laziness.

I also installed Mozilla and it's just as well - a plugin I've written (for MusicSearch.com) works fine with mindzilla but not with Mozilla. In Mozilla only some of the results turn up the sidebar - I can't work out what makes it display some and not others but it's always the same ones. All the results are displayed in the validator's sidebar.

It's just occured to me that (I think) I'm running an experimental version of Mozilla. Could this be a bug with Mozilla rather than my search plugin?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999

[71] Submitted by: Story Weaver on Thursday 9th December 2004 at 12:24 -0500

Hi, it's me again.
The search plugin at the moment is for an engine that requires spaces to be converted to underscores. If you type in a search normally it works as some clever javascript handles all the actual submitting. My plugin, however, requires you to type in the spaces as underscores yourself or it doesn't work.

Is there any way I could convert the spaces to underscores? Or could I send the data to the javascript application instead?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999

[72] Submitted by: Chris on Tuesday 14th December 2004 at 11:44 -0500

Sorry I can't think of any way to do the conversion.

Chris

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[73] Submitted by: dmpoole on Sunday 26th December 2004 at 06:49 -0500

I want to make a Google search engine with all the best buy sites taken out such as Kelkoo, pricerunner etc. In google you would type : computer -kelkoo -pricerunner etc. Where would I put these in the src file? Thanks

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[74] Submitted by: LouCypher on Wednesday 29th December 2004 at 01:09 -0500

To dmpoole [73]:

input name="as_q" user
input name="as_eq" value="kelkoo pricerunner"
input name="sourceid" value="mozilla-search"

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[75] Submitted by: dmpoole on Wednesday 29th December 2004 at 14:01 -0500

To LouCypher

Thankyou thankyou thankyou.

I can now search without all these compare store prices sites.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[76] Submitted by: dmpoole on Wednesday 29th December 2004 at 15:31 -0500

Just wondering if there is a line I can put in the Google UK -compare prices SRC file I've made (with the help of LouCypher)that only shows English pages. I know that most people use the Google Preferences but some don't.

Thanks.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[77] Submitted by: dmpoole on Thursday 30th December 2004 at 12:48 -0500

Done it - it was

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[78] Submitted by: Glamdring on Friday 7th January 2005 at 18:03 -0500

Answer for Slash's question [67]

I'm not sure I fully understand your question. Are you looking for how to fill in a field in the form that will always be the same value? If so then just add field to the myForm.html file that you made. Here's an example:

Website's form contains:

[input type="text" name="myfield"]

and you want myfield to always be equal to "Slash" then in the myForm.html you would have this line in your form:

[input type="hidden" name="myfield" value="Slash"/]

Sorry about the long time in replying.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[79] Submitted by: cgcbolo on Thursday 13th January 2005 at 05:22 -0500

hi,

I'm trying to show to one � like part of the name in the attribute name of tag search, nevertheless nonprofit that appears, somebody knows as I can put vowels marked? thank you very much

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[80] Submitted by: James on Monday 17th January 2005 at 08:22 -0500

I'm impressed at how easy it is to add a search plugin to FireFox. However, it seems (correct me if I'm wrong) that it's not possible to actually use your plugin without submitting it to mycroft?

I'd like to add search support for our internal knowledge base. It makes no sense to publish a plugin to do this as it will be accessible by staff on our LAN.

Is there anyway to add a search plugin without submitting it to mycroft? This seems like a silly limitation which cripples this functionality. I can see that you want to encourage people to make their plugins available, but forcing them?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[81] Submitted by: chob on Friday 21st January 2005 at 15:38 -0500

I am trying to make a search query for www.rac.co.uk
It is a journey planner
I want to pass two different parameters to this URL
http://rp.rac.co.uk/routeplanner?advanced=true&fromcity=UK+town+%252F+postcode&tocity=UK+town+%252F+postcode
So in the search bar, a user might type "London to Glasgow" or "Birmingham to Swansea"

I have to pass London as 'fromcity'
And I have to pass Glasgow as 'tocity'
and ignore the " to "

How can I achieve this (if indeed I can)?
Best wishes

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050117 Firefox/1.0+

[82] Submitted by: BB on Thursday 27th January 2005 at 12:55 -0500

I tried Glamdring's workaround, but for some reason its not populating the myform.html with what im typing in the search field in the firefox browser. If I go into the myform.html and manually type something in, ie. value="blue" instead of value="", then it works? But manually typing it in is defeating the whole purpose of the search. Any ideas?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[83] Submitted by: SW on Friday 28th January 2005 at 09:27 -0500

Hi can anyone help me make a search plugin for www.dvdpricecheck.co.uk as i have no idea. Thanx

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

[84] Submitted by: Sam Gaus on Monday 31st January 2005 at 07:42 -0500

Hi,

I know this must annoy you every time that someone requests a plugin but I can't work out how to do one for PHP.net's function list

Thanks

Sam

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

[85] Submitted by: Eric on Wednesday 2nd February 2005 at 11:49 -0500

I'm wondering if anyone's built a search plugin for godaddy so that you can search domain names from the toolbar... yes... some of us search domain names THAT much :-)

Also, a whois might be a nice plug in as well.. but mainly godaddy (or your favorite registrar).

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[86] Submitted by: LouCypher on Wednesday 9th February 2005 at 02:05 -0500

To Sam Gaus [84]:
The PHP.net's function-list is available on mycroft website
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=php.net&submitform=Find%20search%20plugins

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[87] Submitted by: Olivier on Sunday 13th February 2005 at 09:16 -0500

What about sites who require identification first?
Is it possible to perform the login process automaticaly before submitting the search query?
(it is only a first page to connect with login and password)
It is the case of the search engine of my university library.

Thank you

Olivier

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[88] Submitted by: newby on Wednesday 16th February 2005 at 11:23 -0500

I am a bit confused by the
!"
>

section.

If I leave it as above it works fine

Is something like this being asked for??
resultListStart=""
resultListEnd=""

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[89] Submitted by: newby on Wednesday 16th February 2005 at 11:24 -0500

!"
>

had all the interpret code in it...don't know why it didn't accept paste

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[90] Submitted by: newby on Wednesday 16th February 2005 at 11:25 -0500

...I mean as it is in the coding example with RESULT LIST START

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[91] Submitted by: HeavenIceDay on Wednesday 9th March 2005 at 22:31 -0500

Hi,
is there any way I can convert the '+' signs in the name of a multiple word querry to the '^' sign?

heaveniceday at gmail dot com

Thx.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[92] Submitted by: Farazy on Saturday 12th March 2005 at 19:08 -0500

How do we submit plugins?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

[93] Submitted by: Farazy on Saturday 12th March 2005 at 20:26 -0500

Never mind that...FYI...My search plugin is for file sharing!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

[94] Submitted by: Andy on Thursday 17th March 2005 at 12:42 -0500

James [80],

No, you don't need to publish it - it just needs to get into the 'SearchPlugins' directory wherever you installed firefox to. E.g. C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

[95] Submitted by: Hammy on Friday 18th March 2005 at 15:27 -0500

I know this question has been asked before but I haven't seen a definitive answer so here goes:

I'm trying to get the sidebar populated for my Shopzilla search plugin: it works fine for the main address but I can't get the sidebar to load in Netscape 7.2. Any ideas?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

[96] Submitted by: GregC on Friday 18th March 2005 at 21:08 -0500

I was wondering, is it possible to do a search engine for sites that have no "query=something" in the address, but have just have a plain ?searchterm instead...
eg the difference between google's /search?q=searchterm or whatever and say (for a search plugin for mycroft I'm trying to write btw -"man-ix")
a unix/linux etc man page searcher that should end up looking like
http://dell5.ma.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?dup
if I did a search on the dup command...
but the way I have it at the moment it ends up as
http://dell5.ma.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?q=dup
So I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions to help out?
[#30] & [#31] ran along these lines as well
if anyone wants to do the plugin themselves go for it I guess

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

[97] Submitted by: Kjell Erik Berg on Saturday 19th March 2005 at 14:30 -0500

Is it possible for anyone to help make a plugin for wwww.graphicnews.com and www.dagbladet.no?
keberg@dagbladet.no

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[98] Submitted by: Kjell Erik Berg on Saturday 19th March 2005 at 14:31 -0500

Sorry, but my mail is keb@dagbladet.no

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[99] Submitted by: Carrion on Tuesday 22nd March 2005 at 12:57 -0500

Hey people,

I've just been trying to get this thing down but it's ending in failure lol. I'm trying to make a plug-in for Powertabs.net. I'm pretty sure the search method is POST. I tried to do the POST method trick but it just isn't seeming to work. I get this error:

Warning: Failed opening 'pages/search?pattern=In FLames.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/powertabs.net/html/pta.php on line 431

I'm not sure if that helps. The src can be found at www.ashamedmusic.com/pt.src. And the html src for the POST trick is www.ashamedmusic.com/pt.html. I'm quite aware it looks like I don't know what I'm doing. But, let me make it clear that you're right lol. Any assistance would be of great help. Thanks much.

PS...If you go to powertabs.net, the search I want to use under the Power Tablature section on the left called "Search Tablature." If it's possible, I would like to search by "Artists" that "Contain" the search string by default. Thanks much again.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

[100] Submitted by: anony on Tuesday 22nd March 2005 at 19:45 -0500

Carrion,
see

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/PeteWhelpton/ptasearch.htm

is that what you're trying to do?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

[101] Submitted by: Spitlebug on Saturday 26th March 2005 at 19:06 -0500

How do I remove the mycroft search from my navigation toolbar? I don't want to remove individual search engines, but I want it to stop cluttering my toolbars.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

[102] Submitted by: wamatt on Monday 28th March 2005 at 05:04 -0500

As an earlier poster said:

QuickSearches (http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html) should be integrated with the Search plugin functionality. From an end user perspective, they pretty much do the same thing...

Also sometimes you don't just want it for searches. I use it to autologin to some password protected sites, the ones that don't allow cookies etc.

I would like to be able to type: keyword in the url of the site I want to login to.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999

[103] Submitted by: bg on Tuesday 29th March 2005 at 02:28 -0500

i dont want to reveal what im working on yet but i'd like to know if there is anyway by which the users query can be split into 2 or more parts.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[104] Submitted by: bg on Wednesday 30th March 2005 at 11:20 -0500

allright is javascript allowed in the plugins.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[105] Submitted by: nihixul on Thursday 31st March 2005 at 19:02 -0500

I am trying to make a plugin that basically allows you to go right to the page:

http://interseting.site.com/cgi/searchit?thisalways=that&this=variable

My attempt to do this was using:

http://interseting.site.com/cgi/searchit as action

then the two inputs:

name="thisalways" value="that"
name="this" user (or user="")

This doesn't work. It brings me to an error screen re: a blank search. Any suggestions?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

[106] Submitted by: nihixul on Thursday 31st March 2005 at 19:22 -0500

More info regarding the above:

I don't know why I was being so cryptic. The URL I would like to produce is

http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/findword?query_type=word&queryword=USER_INPUT

However, the URL my script produces is correct. It will NOT work when clicked, but it will work when copy+pasted. The site even has a script you can put in your bookmarks that brings up a dialog box whose query (q) is used with a

if(q)location.href='http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/findword?query_type=word&queryword='+escape(q)

(which obviously works). I thought it could be a cookies issue, but the copy+paste works fine even when I have my cookies cleared.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

[107] Submitted by: bg on Friday 1st April 2005 at 10:40 -0500

in rep to post105
try giving action as searchit and search form as
http://interseting.site.com/cgi/

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[108] Submitted by: Nihixul on Friday 1st April 2005 at 16:41 -0500

re 107: didn't work.

Another interesting tidbit: if I produce the URL (the one that works when copy/pasted) and click it, it takes me to the error screen. If I choose "Open Link in New Window/Tab" it works.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

[109] Submitted by: bg on Sunday 3rd April 2005 at 05:56 -0400

oed is a passworded service and i think it has got something to do with it.
i tried a plugin which produced the required url but oed gave me a login page and i couldnt get past it(since im not a member) and i think if u login it might just work.
im not really sure though.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[110] Submitted by: nihixul on Sunday 3rd April 2005 at 20:40 -0400

re:109

I am on a network that has access to it. As I said, if I shift+click the url my plugin gives, it works, but opening it in the active window doesn't (and neither does just running the plugin). It's weird. I will just use the program they give on their site.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

[111] Submitted by: burk on Sunday 3rd April 2005 at 23:50 -0400

I'm very new to this and I do not know how to compress a file to an archive. I have the text file saved as ccel.txt.src and the icon saved as ccel.jpg. What do I do next.
Thanks
-B

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[112] Submitted by: bg on Monday 4th April 2005 at 01:46 -0400

is there no way of splitting the users entry?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[113] Submitted by: bg on Wednesday 6th April 2005 at 05:53 -0400

guys i finally found aa way to split the users entry.
Thanx to glamdring for the post redirector. My splitter was entirely based on it.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[114] Submitted by: bg on Wednesday 6th April 2005 at 05:58 -0400

I have made a plugin that will log you into yahoo when you enter your mailid followed by a space followed by your password. Since i think mycroft will take some time to post it any body who wants it can send a mail to bg.genius@gmail.com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[115] Submitted by: Andrea M on Thursday 7th April 2005 at 19:36 -0400

I am trying to write a search plugin that requires empty hidden inputs, that is, the url has to have things like ?ed=&jd=&Query=myquery

If I include them in the plugin including an input field with value="" the plugin doesn't send the empty fields (i.e. its query doesn't include ...ed=&jd=&..., and the search fails.

Any clue?
Thanks in advance

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

[116] Submitted by: bg on Sunday 10th April 2005 at 05:50 -0400

reply to 115:
try giving value=" " with a space inbetween the quotes.
Should work if the site doesnt mind spaces.
regards

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[117] Submitted by: bg on Monday 11th April 2005 at 04:08 -0400

rep to 115
or else try this

regards

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[118] Submitted by: bg on Monday 11th April 2005 at 04:11 -0400

i actually meant
[input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search&ed=&jd=">
regards

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[119] Submitted by: Two questions on Saturday 16th April 2005 at 11:52 -0400

Is there a way to make the interpret look inside an iframe within the page?
And can you modify an input tag based on some input to the query, example of what I am asking of could be like inputting a query of "hominid engine=google" or search google... but it would set an input of name engine to the value of google?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

[120] Submitted by: Metar Heller-Algazi on Saturday 30th April 2005 at 10:47 -0400

I've built a search engine (for expertsexchange.com), tested it using the tester, and now i want to install it...
how do i install the *.src file?

plz E-mail me: metar.hell.er@gmail.com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

[121] Submitted by: Mat @ Mycroft on Sunday 1st May 2005 at 11:15 -0400

Reply to Comment #120

Metar Heller-Algazi,

Please take a look at the install section of the documentation. Here is the specific section you are looking for:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/installing.html#manual

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050429

[122] Submitted by: bill on Thursday 5th May 2005 at 11:50 -0400

how do you delete a search engine on the engine list located on upper right hand side?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

[123] Submitted by: brian on Saturday 7th May 2005 at 21:14 -0400

I'm having troubling converting the *.txt file to the *.src file. I have no clue how to "save the plugin file as a plain text .src file". I'm currently using MS Word as my text editor. How do I save it in a different format?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

[124] Submitted by: bg on Sunday 8th May 2005 at 04:02 -0400

rep to 123

click file, save as, and then enter the name as "plugin.src" with the quotes.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

[125] Submitted by: Longone on Monday 9th May 2005 at 16:29 -0400

Hey,

is it possible to add an attribute to make the textfield of the plugin a bit larger?

Like size="50" for HTML. Actually the textfield seems a bit small, I would like it nearly half as large as the address field.

Thanks,

Longone

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

[126] Submitted by: Charles on Wednesday 11th May 2005 at 10:17 -0400

reply to 125

Suggest you have a look at this:
http://dragtotab.mozdev.org/resizesearchbox/

(Also, my personal preference is to drag the search bar on to the line above the address bar which gives much more room)

There is also a line in about:config but this only seems to be enabled after you install the above plugin.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

[127] Submitted by: Locklear on Wednesday 11th May 2005 at 16:49 -0400

In reply to [59], dom:

To make a search in Invision Power Boards, put this in your plugin:

--------------
action="http://your_forum/index.php"
searchForm="http://your_forum/index.php"

input name="forums" value="all"
input name="act" value="Search"
input name="CODE" value="01"
input name="keywords" user

--------------

Don't forget the others inputs and tags.

Tested in IPB 2.0.1 and 2.0.4

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050408 Firefox/1.0.3

[128] Submitted by: englishmen on Thursday 26th May 2005 at 05:18 -0400

Im trying to create my first search plug-in but i do not really understand how to get the url for a a search box. I have read the tutorial above but still do not get it :-( can someone please explain, thanks in advanced.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[129] Submitted by: englishmen on Thursday 26th May 2005 at 05:26 -0400

Oops oops so so sorry about posting 3 times im not trying to spam. I wrote my question then clicked add comment and firefox was loading then it just said stopped so i pressed it again and again the same thing happened so i pressed it again and it finally loaded but obviously it did work the 1st and 2nd time. Again im soooo sorry.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[130] Submitted by: grumble on Friday 27th May 2005 at 03:50 -0400

I'm trying to write a search plugin to generate static URLs not cgi search strings.

something like http://some.site.com/path/USER_INPUT.html

Is this anyone has tried/done? Any suggestions?

grumble _at_ hotmail _dot_ com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[131] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Saturday 28th May 2005 at 00:22 -0400

POST

Is this command ever going to be supported? There is so many sites that use it. It would be nice to write extensions that could use the post method. Has anyone ever made a extension yet that uses the post method that works so I can take a look at the code?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[132] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Saturday 28th May 2005 at 01:39 -0400

"I'm trying to create my first search plug-in but i do not really understand how to get the url for a a search box."

ya type in something to search for and hit enter.
Now the url part should change. That's the ticket. You need that line to figure out how to write your pluggin so copy it to the notepad program.

If the url line does not change then your probably out of luck cause the site probably uses the POST method. See my question above or some insane java script. Your on your own then.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[133] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Saturday 28th May 2005 at 04:39 -0400

I found the answer to my own question Post # 44

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[134] Submitted by: Phiqy on Wednesday 1st June 2005 at 22:44 -0400

# Mozilla/baidu.com plug-in, Baidu.com is the best searcher in China i think

"
resultItemStart=""
resultItemEnd=""
>

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; zh-CN; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[135] Submitted by: englishmen on Saturday 4th June 2005 at 12:01 -0400

"That's the ticket. You need that line to figure out how to write your pluggin so copy it to the notepad program."

But does the url not contain the actual thing that i searched for?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[136] Submitted by: eviljohn2 on Sunday 5th June 2005 at 08:59 -0400

I know this was mentioned further up this but I don't think it got a reply.

Is it possible to rearrange the search icons in the drop-down menu?
I know that they appear in the order in which they were installed but even just alphabetisation would be better IMO.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[137] Submitted by: eviljohn2 on Monday 6th June 2005 at 18:55 -0400

I found how to edit the search menu order from the Mozilla forums.
You need to go into about:config, filter for browser.search.order and add the relevant strings.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[138] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Wednesday 8th June 2005 at 13:23 -0400

Re: 135 Yup it sure does. Of course you do not put that part in. that part is called user

So say you search for butterfly on coolwebsite.com

It comesback:

http://coolwebsite.com/search?q=butterfly

So you make a user statement like so remember < >have been changed to [] can't post those here so keep that in mind.
[input"q" user]

just like that. So look for the thing you searched for in the string, the variable can be called just about anything depending on the site. You need to pay attention to that. You must use the same name as they do. Remember what you searched for (the word) becomes user.

Drag and drop pluggins into note pad. A easy one with out too many lines. Go to that site and search for something. copy the resulting url to the same pluggin file puttin a # in front of the url and past the url. So you take that string and decode it writing your pluggin. can you see how they did it? Pick a different pluggin and repeat. There is a pattern there and you will see it if you look for it.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[139] Submitted by: Matt on Friday 10th June 2005 at 15:08 -0400

I've written a plugin generator in php to help newbies with this. You can check it out here:
http://junkie.generisite.net/firefox/plugingen.php
You can view the source as well:
http://junkie.generisite.net/firefox/plugingen.php?showsource

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050516 Firefox/1.0.4 (MOOX M3)

[140] Submitted by: JP on Friday 17th June 2005 at 15:50 -0400

Help!

I have 2 errors in my .src file:

* Error: Update URI 'http://www.fanmail.biz/images/search_fanmail.src' does not point to Mycroft plugins directory.
* Error: UpdateIcon URI 'http://www.fanmail.biz/images/search_fanmail.gif' does not point to Mycroft plugins directory.

How can i do?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

[141] Submitted by: JP on Sunday 19th June 2005 at 18:46 -0400

Helllllloooo! Anybody heeeere?

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[142] Submitted by: Arianit on Wednesday 22nd June 2005 at 19:53 -0400

Where can I see a sample code for the Wikipedia-s. I want to make one for my language yet I guess changing only a few lines will do it. Thnx in advance.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sq-AL; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[143] Submitted by: Eric on Wednesday 22nd June 2005 at 22:54 -0400

Hi,

I tried and tried all of this until I climbed the walls with frustration, I'm obviously not skilled enough to do this myself. I tried making one of these thinsg search my site itself, and tried making one to search my band listings page. Neither worked.

Anyone willing to make a Firefox Search Plug in for my website http://www.darksoul7.com please contact me at wrathovthetyrant@darksoul7.com. I'm willing to give your business free banner ads for a month in exchange for providing me a working firefox search plug in for my site. If that doesn't float your boat, then I'll give you a couple metal cd's if you are into metal. I'm flexible, just help me out.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Maxthon; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

[144] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Saturday 25th June 2005 at 07:26 -0400

Re: 143

Done, I uploaded it here. This is not the actual place to request but since people ask for dups and ones that are already made I figured I'd do this one. Can't get venue to work. I can find the search page for venue. To make a search pluggin it must be first searchable. Maybe it is I just can't find the page. This one works with bands. Look for it. DarkSoul VIII in music here.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[145] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Saturday 25th June 2005 at 07:43 -0400

Re:143

Yes I noticed the site name is borked. I fixed and uploaded it again. They got to delete the old one before it will show up though.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[146] Submitted by: jOW on Wednesday 29th June 2005 at 10:25 -0400

Hi,

ok, I've successfully written a plugin for "http://google.nottingham.ac.uk/search", which is to say it works in the FireFox toolbar without the sidebar extension, on very superficial testing. I've for now ommitted the update bit as I've not submitted it, the reason for that being...

Whilst the search form ("Powered by Google Search Appliance", no advertising intended) works by the GET method, the results page has no interpret tags as far as I can see in the source code. I may have missed it as a total newby (don't even know HTML, though can make some sense of it), but I think not. It does what I want, but should I submit it?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[147] Submitted by: jOW on Wednesday 29th June 2005 at 10:44 -0400

oh yes, learningjo@hotmail.com

another thing: I've made map24uk by changing only 1 term in map24nl, similarly Streetmap Place from Streetmap Postcode. Before I submit them, how should I do the credits, the "programming" was hardly a brain-stretcher.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[148] Submitted by: crc on Thursday 30th June 2005 at 11:13 -0400

Once you've created the .src file and the .png file, is there any way you can test it locally before submission? I've read and re-read this page and I don't see how to do that.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[149] Submitted by: jOW on Thursday 30th June 2005 at 11:22 -0400

crc (148):

Find your "searchplugins" folder (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins in WinXP), copy the files into there, restart firefox, and test to your hearts content.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[150] Submitted by: JP on Saturday 2nd July 2005 at 17:20 -0400

Help!

I have 2 errors in my .src file:

* Error: Update URI 'http://www.fanmail.biz/images/search_fanmail.src' does not point to Mycroft plugins directory.
* Error: UpdateIcon URI 'http://www.fanmail.biz/images/search_fanmail.gif' does not point to Mycroft plugins directory.

How can i do?

Thanks a lot in advance

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[151] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Saturday 2nd July 2005 at 17:26 -0400

Re: 150

I replied before but the reply never stuck. You have to set the location to here cause that's where your going to upload it to right?

so change those two lines to this:

now remember I removed all the formatting cause it's not allowed in posts.:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/search_fanmail.src
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/search_fanmail.gif

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[152] Submitted by: ricky @ mycroft on Sunday 3rd July 2005 at 04:53 -0400

In reply to [139]

Matt, thanks. We always like competition :) For sure, it's better looking than ours: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/generator/
source available here
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/mycroft/www/generator/

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[153] Submitted by: ricky @ mycroft on Sunday 3rd July 2005 at 04:56 -0400

In reply to [142]

Arianit, just install one of the existing wikipedia plugins and look at its code. You'll find the file in the searchplugins directory where you installed firefox.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[154] Submitted by: Some Basics on Wednesday 27th July 2005 at 23:16 -0400

Seriously, if your new to this and/or looking/requesting new plugins please know that:

.src isn't what you are searching for

People These lines mean stuff.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

[155] Submitted by: mark on Friday 29th July 2005 at 10:14 -0400

Good day.

I have a question on updating searchplugins on mycroft.mozdev.org. I uploaded a new plugin one day ago. I then attempted to update the plugin using the same process, but this time clicking the 'Update'
button on the submit form instead of the 'New' button, here

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/submit.html .

Is that the correct process for updating? I ask because I received an email from mycroft-admin indicating the update had been rejected. No reason that I could discern for the rejection was given.

Can anyone help clarify how to update? Perhaps 'updating' can only be done on plugins not marked 'Untested'?

Thanks.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

[156] Submitted by: Mighy Pete on Saturday 30th July 2005 at 00:33 -0400

That should be how it works. Try it again make sure the update is clearly checked before you click next. Now I think the update has to be manually approved. So maybe put something in the notes part for them to read.

Oh actually my bad, that letter you got is telling you that the first pluggin has now been rejected, and has been replaced with the new one you just uploaded. If you search for it and download it you'll download the fixed pluggin. It's the way it works round here. When they delete a pluggin you get a letter be it broken or otherwise.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

[157] Submitted by: Piet Nelemans on Tuesday 16th August 2005 at 13:08 -0400

I'm working on a search plugin, but I don't succeed to write one.

It's very simple:
if I enter 'blabla' in the search-field, I want Firefox to visit this URL:
'http://www.domain.com?var=blabla'

Can anyone help me? Thanks!

post@pietnelemans.nl

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

[158] Submitted by: larrygon on Tuesday 13th September 2005 at 03:01 -0400

I am trying to write a search plugin for a site that is using the search.pl perl script.

Is there a way to make firefox search this site with the search bar?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

[159] Submitted by: dan on Saturday 17th September 2005 at 17:55 -0400

I cant seem to submit my plug-in. :-/ It passes the validation, but I am stuck on step two of the submission process!!

I browse and find my .src file, then click next. The form submits, but stays on step 2 now with an empty file input box again!

I am using firefox, but even tried to submit with IE, same problem.

Thanks!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

[160] Submitted by: Jade on Friday 23rd September 2005 at 11:44 -0400

I recently submitted a couple of plugins, but for the one, I submitted it accidently twice. Is there anyway to delete plugins off of mycroft.mozdev.org?

The plugins that I submitted were for Athabasca University, one for HT Dig, and the other for google. I accidently submitted the goole one twice, and the one that needs to be taken off is the one that supports Side Navigation. What do I do?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

[161] Submitted by: ken on Thursday 29th September 2005 at 23:40 -0400

Though it is not likely to change anything, you can try moving the source id tag to a different place of order in the plugin and see if that helps. Most likely you will need to remove it and state the reason why it is not there, when you submit the plugin. We like to let site owners know we are generating traffic with Mozilla-search��վ�ƹ�, but if it can't be used, it isn't necessary.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

[162] Submitted by: savred on Friday 7th October 2005 at 19:15 -0400

I've been trying to create without success a search plugin, using a local .html for redirection as submitted by Glamdring in the post [42].
When I insert the search keywords after selecting the appropriate search plugin nothing happens.

I suspect it has to do with the firefox version I'm using (1.0.6).

Firefox 1.0.3 and onwards have been corrected for a security bug MFSA2005-38 which might affect:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-38.html

Can someone confirm if it is possible to use the redirection trick on the newer versions of firefox.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

[163] Submitted by: Ben Loper on Monday 10th October 2005 at 19:21 -0400

What if I want to have search like the wikipedia and Google where it plugs "site:wikipedia.com 'then whatever you search for'"?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

[164] Submitted by: Tony Cai on Saturday 15th October 2005 at 00:32 -0400

It seems they have changed the plugin directory for the plugin.src and plugin.gif.

It is now:

update="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/update.php/id0/plugin.src"
updateIcon="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/update.php/id0/plugin.gif"
updateCheckDays="7"

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

[165] Submitted by: Jason Fuller on Tuesday 18th October 2005 at 15:16 -0400

If there's already an icon in your location bar, chances are it's already 16x16 pixels. Save time and chek for a favicon.ico file. It's located at: http://site/favicon.ico

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7 (Debian package 1.0.7-1)

[166] Submitted by: lawson23 on Wednesday 19th October 2005 at 13:39 -0400

I was trying to make a plugin for Vmyths.com hoax searh but it is using the POST method instead of GET. Does anyone have any idea how to get this to work? I'm sorry but this was my first attempt at creating one of these. I of course didn't pick an easy one.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

[167] Submitted by: Greg on Thursday 20th October 2005 at 06:44 -0400

I am trying to make a search, which works so far, but the problem is I need a URL output like this:

www.domain.com/search/query/USER

No '=' or '?', is this possible.

For example if the user enters the search for 'foo' the URL output is

www.domain.com/search/query/foo

How can I do this?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

[168] Submitted by: Greg on Thursday 20th October 2005 at 11:52 -0400

Nevermind, I have solved it another way

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

[169] Submitted by: Josh on Saturday 22nd October 2005 at 22:55 -0400

I have my script at www.kyouakujounins.com/solution-host.src
so you can view it.
I dont know what to put for

I want it to work for smf forums search page so they can search the forum, this plugin is for the site solution-host.com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

[170] Submitted by: Josh on Saturday 22nd October 2005 at 22:56 -0400

I dont know what to put for

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

[171] Submitted by: Josh on Saturday 22nd October 2005 at 22:57 -0400

I dont know what to put for
input name="query" user
sorry for the triple post, I did not know html did not work

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

[172] Submitted by: Acedude on Monday 24th October 2005 at 16:05 -0400

Is there anyway to make google search the site you're currenty on by using the search bar?

E.g.
I'm on www.deviantart.com and I want to search for "flowers". The site I'm on doesn't have a search engine, So I want to use google's site search feature (site: ). Is it possible to write a plugin to do this?

I saw a post earlier to search a particular site, using google.

So what I'm basically asking is, is there any way to pass a value from the location bar to the "

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

[173] Submitted by: Acedude on Monday 24th October 2005 at 16:07 -0400

Is there anyway to make google search the site you're currenty on by using the search bar?

E.g.
I'm on www.deviantart.com and I want to search for "flowers". The site I'm on doesn't have a search engine, So I want to use google's site search feature (site: ). Is it possible to write a plugin to do this?

I saw a post earlier to search a particular site, using google.
input name="q" value="site:deviantart.com"
input name="q" user=""

So what I'm basically asking is, is there any way to pass a value from the location bar to the "input name="q" value=" part?

Please help thanks

(sorry about the double post, didn't post right the last time)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

[174] Submitted by: misterdan on Friday 28th October 2005 at 14:51 -0400

I'm having problems with

I've looked on the search site's website for name and for user to no avail. I've tried query, q, qu, searchterms and all the while I recieve this error:

"Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

I'm pretty sure I have the right action and searchform. Could something else be wrong? Can someone help me out?

Thanks,
Dan

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

[175] Submitted by: MTO on Monday 7th November 2005 at 07:43 -0500

Spent 3 hours trying to figure this out, I cant.

I need this:
http://site.com/SEARCH_TERM/index.html

Could someone please help?
Thanks

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; es-ES; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

[176] Submitted by: lala on Friday 11th November 2005 at 17:03 -0500

get opera, it's easier

Opera/8.5 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)

[177] Submitted by: Johannes Buchner on Monday 14th November 2005 at 02:07 -0500

@MTO (175)
This won't work. With the current implementation of the search plugin you can only submit a GET variable with the search term.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

[178] Submitted by: Jungshik Shin on Tuesday 15th November 2005 at 02:51 -0500

This document has a couple of mistakes and needs to be updated. Basically, you always have to specify 'queryCharset'. However, you should NOT specify 'queryEncoding'. See http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9098
for more details. I'll send a patch soon to prevent new searchplugings from being created with incorrect queryCharset/Encoding specifications.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1