Mycroft Project

Mycroft Status Report (2005-12-15)

5157 Plugins.
The release of Firefox 1.5 combined with some not very efficient code of one sort and another took the whole of mozdev down for a while. I have since reworked a lot of the mycroft backend so that a lot more is cached. This should make the site quicker and more reliable. It also means that all downloads are now counted and I will start producing statistics soon. Update system should be working fine and shouldn't be hurting the sql server so much.

Achievements:

Not entirely melting the mozdev hardware ;).

Task List:

Some work to do on categorisation. Update soon.
Anyone who would like to rewrite the screenshots pages - please let me know.
Compile a stistics.html page with search/download numbers.

Problems:

Nothing major known about at the moment.

Mycroft Status Report (2005-10-12)

4215 Plugins.
Update system almost back in action.
Still quite a lot of plugins needing judging - may provide a list of plugins in most need of judging soon (Also, please only judge as broken if you're sure it's broken).

Achievements:

The update method should start working fully again soon. As long as the extra requests don't destroy the server.
For future reference, the key is this bit of code.

Task List:

Nothing very interesting to report at the moment.

Problems:

Nothing major known about at the moment.

Mycroft Status Report (2005-09-19) UPDATE

The whole of mozdev was playing up over the weekend due to some incident or other.
This caused some php features to be turned off. They are currently back on.
The submission system may stop working again. Plugin downloads are no longer dependent on these changes.

Achievements:

Not very much to report here.

Task List:

Now slightly less to do - nothing very interesting to report.

Problems:

Update mechanism still broken. Last attempt at a scripted solution seems to fail due to the way Mozilla looks for updates.
Bug 11587 should now be resolved by a workaround.
Submission system currently working. See Bug 11586 for further info.

Mycroft Status Report (2005-08-01)

This is the first report in nearly two years so is very brief in its coverage.
Will try and keep it more up to date!

In answer to post 90 - see below for a partial explanation.
In answer to posts 85/86 - Mighty Pete's roughly right. We log all judges and use them for a mix of automatic and manual updating. If an untested plugin gets above a threshold of working votes (currently 3 or more) then it becomes tested. And for every 5 working votes the last checked field gets updated. (This would possibly be more useful than the currently displayed last updated field and this may change) Plugins that get voted broken (various other thresholds that are fairly arbitrary) are looked at and either deleted or marked broken depending on whether the site still exists or not. The biggest difficulty is where plugins have say 10 working votes and 3 broken votes as it is hard to know whether the plugin is really broken or if someone is woting incorrectly (thinking that broken should be used for semi for example) or if the plugin works under firefox but not under mozilla or if someone is being malicious (voting is logged by ip but that's obviously not foolproof). More on that later maybe.
Not quite sure what MP means about deceiving graphs though... the graph just shows the state of the plugins - all plugins are represented on both of the graphs. The trouble is that new plugins are being submitted faster than users are judging the current set of plugins.

Achievements:

Contributors can now submit plugins. There remain 3000+ emails lying dormant. At some point these may get pointed to the new system.
At the last report (2003-09-21) there were 450 plugins. There are currently 3207.

Task List:

There is further work to be done with the new submission system. In particular the update mechanism is currently effectively broken as we are moving plugins from the plugins directory to a database to avoid lots of cvs movements. (It's slightly more complicated than post 90 below but isn't too difficult - just needs to be done.
We need users to help us judge plugins - we also need to explain the system much more effectively.

Problems:

Update mechanism currently broken - see above.
Some issues with the judging mechanism and with cacheing of search results

Mycroft Status Report (2003-09-21)

Since last month, we've added more plugins, we had a big database crash from which we recovered, and which gave us the energy to check all the plugins. Now over 450 plugins are at your disposal.

A bad regression in the latest Firebird nightlies breaks the function of adding search plugins. Mozilla developpers are aware of that and are working on it.

Achievements:

We had an almost complete dataloss of our database but thanks to the impressive energy of our project members, the data was fully recovered within one week or so.
A new database is being planned, as well as the integration of the plugin generator.
We now know which are the most popular plugins. Check out the Top 30

Task List:

Implement the new database and move the data over to it
Continue updating our website, both the admin part as well as the public part
Find more people checking the plugins. Maybe also write a frontend so that non-members of the project can check easily and give us a feedback

Problems:

Bug 219534 breaks the function of adding search engines in Mozilla Firebird nightlies
It looks like the spam on our newsgroup is so heavy, that it isn't worth checking for the valid messages. Please use the mailing list instead.

Mycroft Status Report (2003-08-19)

In almost a year (since we last issued a status report), lots have been happening. Thanks to Mozilla Firebird's success, our plugins have increased in popularity. We are now close to 400 plugins which have been submitted by external contributors or by project members.

As a consequence, it's very hard to keep up with checking the plugins (they break once in a while when sites get updated) and adding new plugins. If you feel like helping out, please contact us.

Achievements:

A total of roughly 400 plugins are online and being checked actively. Our wish is to check every plugin once in 3 months, but due to the amount of plugins to test (and to fix) we are at a cylce of 4-5 months already...
Our website has been updated according to the latest changes in Mozilla Firebird. See the top of our screenshots page.
Mat has completed the deepdocs page. Any comments and additions are welcome through the notes system at the end of every page. A PDF version of the document is also available for printing, though it might not contain the latest changes.

Task List:

Continue checking and fixing plugins.
Continue updating our website, both the admin part as well as the public part
Find more people checking the plugins. Maybe also write a frontend so that non-members of the project can check easily and give us a feedback

Problems:

A lot of bugs in Mozilla Seamonkey (the suite) make the usage of search plugins (especially when using multiple engines at the same time) impossible. Therefore we are hoping an improved search sidebar will soon be created for Mozilla Firebird, be it as an extension or as part of the software.
On Mozdev, bug 2175 (cannot use GET method) prevents us from creating a very powerful search engine. Also the new "Help others find Mycroft" page would be much better when using GET instead of POST.

Mycroft Status Report (2002-09-28)

Since our last update, some 3 months ago, a lot has happened to Mycroft. True, in August we've all been very busy with holidays ;-), but overall, we are quite satisfied. We are proud to announce some new things, so read on...

First of all, if you've never used our site, we suggest you try the following plugins: AltaVista (general search), eBay (shopping) and PHP documentation (programming). Read more about the suggestions of the Mycroft staff.

Achievements:

Around 30 new plugins were added. The MozillaPL Team and Michael Dubner have been particularly active, they sent us an impressive number of Polish, respectively Russian plugins.
Around 50 plugins have been checked. Now we are close to 80% of working plugins. Note that as web sites change (no need to get through a redesign, sometimes just a small change in the code does the trick), the plugins will start behaving weird or will be completely broken. If you come across a broken plugin, please report it, or send us a fix.
Julius sent a (very basic) patch for bug 65877 ([RFE] Need an easy way to add search engines to Search Panel). Please have a look at it and send in comments.
Mat has continued to work on the DeepDocs: several more attributes are now documented, there's a new section on "Installing Mozilla-Search Plugins". He also worked on the look-and-feel of the docs.
The MozillaPL team has created a very promising sherlock plugin generator. This is a great tool and could be integrated into the Mycroft project sometime.
Mat created a first draft of a "Help others find Mycroft" page.
There has been quite some work behind the scenes too: Mat and I improved the administration tool and I finally added the new field "checkdate" to our database so that we can make a difference between plugins that were just checked, and those that were fixed.
I triaged the Browser > Search bugs in bugzilla. Now things are quite clearer and we can now organize our work better.

Task List:

Checking and fixing plugins.
Tidy some of the web site (especially the screenshots that are a little old).
Continue working on the DeepDocs and get it out of the "under construction" phase.
Create a field in the database in order to mark semi-plugins. Semi-plugins are sherlock plugins that contain no <interpret> tag, that is, they are useful for EasySearch, but the results won't be parsed in the sidebar (because the results provide no links, for example).
We are looking for volunteers to check and possibly maintain our collection of Japanese search plugins.
We have been unable to contact anybody from searchstandard.com. If you are reading this please get in touch...
Behind the scenes, there is some work planned to enable interactive plugin submissions and maintenance.

Problems:

Bug 94651 Sherlock search plugins don't decode & in URLs: this bug breaks a lot of plugins. And this time we cannot blame it on the webmasters. It's a clear Mozilla bug. We've created the bug 2148 on mozdev to track all the plugins affected by it.
Bug 86433 [Request Feature] Regular Expressions in Search PlugIns: this prevents the creation of plugins for some cool sites. We've created the bug 2151 on mozdev to track all the plugins affected by it.
Bug 154662 combined search (multi-engine search) no longer working: this is a big regression that defeats the biggest advantages of search plugins.
On Mozdev, bug 2175 (cannot use GET method) prevents us from creating a very powerful search engine. Also the new "Help others find Mycroft" page would be much better when using GET instead of POST.
There are bugs in the way Mozilla parses the search results. Julius is working on a test case.

Mycroft Status Report (2002-07-06)

There's really a lot of activity in the project now. If you want to be up-to-date with all the happenings, you can subscribe to our newsgroup. Also, you can check our homepage in order to see the newly added plugins.

Achievements:

Since the June 19 build, bugs 86063 and 134614 are fixed. Tools|Search the Web now uses the default search engine, its shortcut Ctrl-Shift-F has also been implemented. This means for us that the sherlock plugins must know on which URL we have the search form. There's some guessing procedure so it might work on most of the plugins. However, some plugins need to be updated. We are working on this.
Lots of plugins have been added, 2/3 of the now 150 plugins have been checked.
We now have a staff page where you can see who is working on the project and what he is doing.
Mat has done a great documentation work. It's still a work in progress, but you can check out our Deepdocs

Tasklist:

Change structure of database in order to make a difference between "last date checked" and "last date updated". The SQL commands have to be sent to the mozdev team.
Finish checking and fixing the current plugins
Create the plugins that have been requested by users
Look with our partner searchstandard.com how we will coordinate our work.
Create icons for the searchstandard.com plugins
Find maintainers (country/language based, category based). Andrea from the localization projects suggested asking the localization staffs on the newsgroup.
Get in touch with all creators of the plugins to have their own plugins checked now and then and update them. We have collected almost all e-mail addresses of the contributors. We now need to add a column to the database and automate the notification procedure.
Long-term goal: Create an interactive interface for directly submitting the plugins, see mozdev bug 174

Problems:

We have to understand better how the plugins work inside Mozilla. That is, somebody will have to go deep into the code. Mat has already had a look at it, but we would appreciate some help of a C++ guru.
The search sidebar is still very buggy and user-unfriendly. We will have to file some bugs and try to get working on that stuff too.

Mycroft Status Report (2002-06-12)

Achievements:

Three people have joined the project: joolz, mat and utopic. Welcome!
More plugins have been added.
More plugins have been checked.
In the last report, we announced that we consider working together with http://www.searchstandard.com/ which provides nearly 300 sherlock plugins for the mac. They agreed. The 300 plugins won't be added immediately, since they are close to a new release, with bugfixes.

Tasklist:

Change structure of database in order to make a difference between "last date checked" and "last date updated". The SQL commands have to be sent to the mozdev team.
Finish checking and fixing the current plugins
Create the plugins that have been requested by users
Look with our partner searchstandard.com how we will coordinate our work.
Create icons for the searchstandard.com plugins
Find maintainers (country/language based, category based). Andrea from the localization projects suggested asking the localization staffs on the newsgroup.
Get in touch with all creators of the plugins to have their own plugins checked now and then and update them.
Create an interactive interface for directly submitting the plugins, see mozdev bug 174

Problems:

We have to understand better how the plugins work inside Mozilla. That is, somebody will have to go deep into the code.
The search sidebar is still very buggy and user unfriendly. We will have to file some bugs and try to get working on that stuff too.

Mycroft Status Report (2002-05-30)

Achievements:

A nice amount of new plugins have been submitted by various persons. It's great to see that more and more people contribute to this project.
All plugins have been tested and those still working marked non-beta. All plugins marked beta, therefore, are not working or have some serious problems.
A few of the broken plugins have been fixed.
We have identified a very nice site out there, http://www.searchstandard.com/ which provides nearly 300 sherlock plugins for the mac. We've asked if we are allowed to distribute these plugins also on our site. The answer came fast and now we are thinking of a work in common. This is a last minute news, so more in the next report.
We've finally set up the mailing-list/newsgroup.

Tasklist:

In case searchstandard.com agrees, we will have to create icons for all these sites.
Find contributors. Azrael told he will be available but still no news...
Find maintainers (country/language based, category based). Andrea from the localization projects suggested to ask the localization staffs on the newsgroup.
Get in touch with all creators of the plugins to have their own plugins checked now and then and update them.
Create an interactive interface for directly submitting the plugins, see mozdev bug 174

Problems:

Not enough people with CVS access. If you are interested, please contact us.
I will be unavailable during one month this summer, so it would be great to have someone backing me up.

Mycroft Status Report (2002-05-16)

Achievements:

Some plugins have been submitted. All plugins which have been submitted are online. If you submitted one but you can't find it, please resend it.
The homepage now has an indicator about the number of plugins and their overall quality. Note that right now there's still a lot of red, meaning that there is still quite some work to be done.

Tasklist:

Find contributors. Azrael told he will be available in one week.
Find maintainers (country/language based, category based). Andrea from the localization projects suggested to ask the localization staffs on the newsgroup.
Check all the plugins and fix them if they are broken (still 60% of all plugins have not been tested yet, and lots of the tested ones need to get fixed).
Get in touch with all creators of the plugins to have their own plugins checked now and then and update them.
Create an interactive interface for directly submitting the plugins, see mozdev bug 174

Problems:

A number of already existing search plugins don't work any more. Checking all the plugins and correcting them is a lot of work. So if you want to see things moving, please get in touch with me and we'll find something you can do. there are some very easy tasks anyone can do, without any technical knowledge.

Mycroft Status Report (2002-02-10)

Bringing a project back to life is not a small task. However thanks to jesus_x's post on MozillaNews, the previous Status Report posted on MozillaZine and the Mozilla 0.9.8 Release Notes made the name change public and already drove some traffic to the new site. If you haven't seen it yet, please drop by and see how easy it is to help.

Achievements:

40% of the current plugins have been checked. It's no surprize that after more than one year of inactivity, websites have redesigned or changed the URL of their search engine. Only one out of seven still work.

Tasklist:

Find contributors
Find maintainers (country/language based, category based)
Check all the plugins and fix them if they are broken (the remaining 60%).
Get in touch with all creators of the plugins to have their own plugins checked now and then and update them.
Add submitted plugins which have arrived in the meantime
Create an interactive interface for directly submitting the plugins, see mozdev bug 174

Problems:

A number of already existing search plugins don't work any more. Checking all the plugins and correcting them is a lot of work. So if you want to see things moving, please get in touch with me and we'll find something you can do. there are some very easy tasks anyone can do, without any technical knowledge.

Mycroft Status Report (2002-01-31)

Achievements:

Renamed the Sherlock project to Mycroft. We want to avoid copyright issues with Apple.

Tasklist:

Find contributors
Check all the plugins and fix them if they are broken.
Get in touch with all creators of the plugins to have their own plugins checked now and then and update them.
Create an interactive interface for directly submitting the plugins, see mozdev bug 174

Problems:

A number of already existing search plugins don't work any more

Sherlock Status Report (2001-10-28)

Achievements:

Exactly 10 months passed since the last update...

Tasklist:

Find someone who loves writing PHP.
Finish the database (bugs 122, 639 and 640)
Check all the plugins and fix them if they are broken.
Get in touch with all creators of the plugins to have their own plugins checked now and then and update them.
Create an interactive interface for directly submitting the plugins, see mozdev bug 174

Problems:

a number of already existing search plugins don't work any more
the database is still not ready
chstuder and Azrael have been inactive like me (ricky) during 10 months...

Sherlock Status Report (2001-02-28)

Achievements:

Preparing the database takes longer than estimated. We are almost done however.
Bug 67944 has been fixed.

Tasklist:

Finish the database
Create an interactive interface for directly submitting the plugins, see mozdev bug 174

Problems:

Bugs 67574, 66363, 65863 and 65453 are still not fixed.

Sherlock Status Report (2001-02-18)

Achievements:

The quality guidelines for writing plugins have been released. If you have any comments or questions, don't hesitate! Thanks Azrael.
The mozdev bug 122 has been worked on. Next week, the database will probably be running! Christoph Studer was a great help. Thanks again.
More plugins have been submitted. Last's week "nearly 100 plugins" was somewhat overestimated (hey, we didn't count them!), it was around 60 plugins. Now we are at about 80. As soon as the database is running, we'll have more accurate numbers.

Tasklist:

We need some people to test the different plugins according to the quality guidelines. Anyone interested? This is especially a good job for those who are afraid to contribute to Mozilla because they don't know a programming language.
We need to finish the database. Currently we have the structure, the PHP search engine, we still need to feed the database and create an admin tool. Any PHP freak?

Problems:

Mozilla 0.8 has a bad regression bug, Bug 67944: Advanced search sidebar category dropdown not working. This is annoying if you have organized your search plugins into categories, but it doesn't affect the developpment work of sherlock plugins, since our plugins are installed into the web category by default, the only category that is available with this bug.
Mozilla 0.8 has another regression bug, also very annoying and highly visible: Bug 67574: Can't open (some) menus after switching themes. Since the Search menu is affected, you cannot set Search | My Sidebar Search Tab | Advanced. Workaround: restart the browser or open a new browser window.
Robert Churchill commented Bug 66363: 95+% of public search engines out there use HTTP GET... With the current architecture, there is no easy solution for providing full support for HTTP POST.
The bugs mentioned last week are still there: Bug 65863 and Bug 65453

Sherlock Status Report (2001-02-11)

Achievements:

In a very short time, the sherlock project got quite a number of contributions (that is, nearly 100 sherlock plugins were submitted).

Tasklist:

We need to create some standard tests in order to quality-check the submitted plugins. Volunteers needed for both creating the test procedure and testing the plugins.
We need to create a database in order to make all the plugins searchable and put them in different categories. For now, there's a bug filed in Mozdev on Pete Collins.

Problems:

There are still some very annoying bugs in Mozilla that prevent the sherlock plugins to work nicely:

Bug 66363: Search plugins don't work with the post method
Bug 65863: Search Panel: clicking on a link in the results updates the results themselves
Bug 65453: Wrong document base in combined search (internetresults.xul)

User Notes: [?]

If you do not get a response to a question posted in this forum, please try sending a message to the project's mailing list or to the project owner directly.

[1] Submitted by: Roger Pixley on Tuesday September 10th 2002: I think the n7 updaet broke the teoma plugin It queries it and the results re returned but you can only see them if you actually click on the teoma tab. it is not displayed with the other Web site summaries
[2] Submitted by: nanashi nichan on Monday September 23rd 2002: mycroft supports many nice categorys :search, shopping, auction,etc.But I need "Translation" plug-ins. http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/?wb_lp=ENJA&wb_dis=2&wb_co=excitejapan&wb_url=http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html this page translate mycroft.mozdev.org into Japanese.And http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/cgi-bin/dict_search.cgi?MT=%CB%DF%BA%CF&sw=1 this page tell you what "bonsai" is (and "bonsai" in Chinese Characters, if you have japanese fonts.)

A keyword makes a uri. this is the very same technic as other plug-ins can do,I think.
[3] Submitted by: ricky @ mycroft on Friday October 11th 2002: Nanashi Nichan, these kind of "search engines" usually return a text, and not a collection of links. Sherlock plugins not only offer a "shortcut" to a "search engine", but also parse the links for easy access from the sidebar. However, due to lot of requests of your kind, we are planning to add these "semi-plugins", which offer a shortcut to these "search engines without links".
[4] Submitted by: KW Bergman on Tuesday November 5th 2002: The documentation states that we can't use POST, but this page states that GET is what doesn't work. All of the search plugins I looked at appear to be using GET, too. I am trying to write some plugins, but I am confused as to what works exactly. Could you elaborate on this?
[6] Submitted by: ricky @ mycroft on Friday December 27th 2002: KW Bergman, you are probably referring to the bug
http://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2175

Indeed, the GET method doesn't work on the website (try this to convince yourself
Get Download
- it should start a search on the download page)

So that bug is exactly about that. On the other hand, we have another bug, this one in Mozilla's Sherlock engine which prevent us from using the POST method in sherlock plugins
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66363

So if you take these 2 bugs together, we cannot write a search plugin for mycroft. Isn't that sad? And yes, we've got a bug on that too, it's
http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2244

Still confused? I hope not. Otherwise read the bug reports first. Thanks :)
[7] Submitted by: RE Ford on Friday February 14th 2003: Hi to everyone and thanks for your ongoing contributions to the mycroft project.

Well that was the sugar, now for the starch:

For a project, having as its reason for being, the aim of helping people to quickly find the thing they are looking for, you don't do newbies or dummies like me any favours in searching for the SEARCH plugins instead of the easier to find helper plug-ins.

May I suggest a link from the helper plug-ins page (eg acrobat, svg, MYCROFT (you remember sherlock, yes? well don't go there).

All the best in the future.
[8] Submitted by: mat @ mycroft on Saturday February 15th 2003: RE Ford,

Thanks for the heads up. I've sent a note to one of the maintainers of plugindoc.mozdev.org , requesting a link to the Mycroft project.
[9] Submitted by: Paul Millar on Saturday February 15th 2003: Is there anyway of getting a button in Mozilla, either on the sidebar Search panel or in the preferences for Internet Search, which, when pressed, would take people to the Mycroft page to find these search plugins?
[10] Submitted by: julius on Saturday February 15th 2003: Paul: I wrote a patch which did this but it has so far been ignored <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65877>
[15] Submitted by: Spaceman-Spiff on Friday September 19th 2003: bug: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=25013
js check doesn't work for Firebird nightlies
[16] Submitted by: Jakub Narębski on Saturday December 13th 2003: Could you add to the installation page the JavaScript script which add all the categories which Mycroft uses? I'd rather install the search engines into their categories than organize them into categories by hand (because for example I misspelled the engine category, e.g. added 'Computers' category instead of 'Computer' and the instalation of the search engine added it uncategorized).

BTW. do the searchengine categories are case sensitive? I have noticed that some search engined (e.g. SourceForge) uses 'programming' and some (e.g. Freshmeat Projects) uses 'Programming'?
[17] Submitted by: mat @ mycroft on Sunday December 14th 2003: Jakub,

I sent a reply to you on the mailing list, but I'm not certain that you will be able to read the attachment when it gets approved and posted. If you should need more help concerning this issue please write to the mailing list, so that I may send the file directly to you.
[18] Submitted by: FRS on Tuesday January 6th 2004: The plug-in named "Aur�lio" http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/aurelio.src (it searches on http://www2.uol.com.br/aurelio/) is erroneously placed on the "Reference" category, but it should be on "Language dictionary" instead, since it's the most popular Brazilian Portuguese dictionary.
[19] Submitted by: mat @ mycroft on Wednesday January 7th 2004: Re: Aur�lio

Moved. Thanks for informing us.

Mat
[20] Submitted by: lenard at vcn.bc.ca on Wednesday January 14th 2004: Hi.

I think these search plugins are the greatest thing.

I liked them so much, I got a little carried away, and installed a whole bunch, including some random ones.

Now, I can't figure out how to uninstall the ones I don't want!

I've been digging around these pages, and just can't find the answer. Probably, it's so easy that it doesnt' require explanation. Or...

Help? How do I remove a search enging?

Thanks,

Len
[21] Submitted by: Alan on Thursday January 15th 2004: Re: Removing Plugins

Hi Lenard, this is not so difficult. Close Mozilla and find your "searchplugins" folder. For Windows this is normally "C:Program Filesmozilla.orgMozillasearchplugins" but for other O/S it will be similar. Each plugin has a pair of files, an "SRC" and an icon (PNG, GIF or JPG). Simply delete both files for each plugin you want discard. Re-open Mozilla and they should now be gone.
[22] Submitted by: Alan on Thursday January 15th 2004: Re: Re: [21) Removing plugins

Hmmm... I see the posting above has cleverly removed my backslashes. Just in case of confusion that path should look like...
C:?Program Files?mozilla.org?Mozilla?searchplugins
(Replace the question marks with a backslash)
[23] Submitted by: Lenard on Friday January 16th 2004: Thanks Alan, that worked!

Cheers!
[24] Submitted by: Gary Casagrande on Tuesday February 17th 2004: I am an end user. I think this is the right place to request a new engine. Sorry if it is not. I use my local library search site quite frequently... http://www.somerset.lib.nj.us/ .. it has an engine that allows searching for title, author, etc. It would be very helpful if you could make plug ins for both. Thank you in advance. You have a wonderful tool I use daily. Another suggestion - wbmd.com. Lots of medical information, especially for us older geeks!
[25] Submitted by: Jeno on Saturday March 20th 2004: Is there a way of removing .src/.gifs for the Mac OS X? It's easier to find the searchplugins folder for Windows, but can't find where the data is stored for the Mac. Thanks, and keep up the great work!
[26] Submitted by: just another guy on Saturday March 20th 2004: Jigle and Sharereactor sites are (and will be for a long time) down, 'cause swiss police has taken the servers. You could remove the plugins.
btw, great work
[27] Submitted by: Andrea on Monday May 10th 2004: The db crashed again :-(
[28] Submitted by: MaxMacGyver on Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:16:50 -0400: Is there any way to submit the searches without using the keyboard? I haven't been able to figure out any way to do it except by pressing "Enter" on the keyboard. Am I missing something? If not - it would be great if a button were added so I could use the mouse to click "go" or "submit" or something. I usually search by copy/paste since I am disabled making the keyboard not my first choice. Thanks!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
[29] Submitted by: Hermes on Tuesday 13th July 2004 at 09:59 -0400: Try "Search Button" extension

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
[30] Submitted by: Tayyeb Masud on Friday 23rd July 2004 at 01:47 -0400: I am using the 0.9.2 Firefox. When a Javascript command error message occurs the browser displays the message and keeps on repeating it for a long time and in some links the browser opens up a new blank window but opens the content in the previous window leaving the new window blank.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
[31] Submitted by: Panthere on Friday 23rd July 2004 at 02:30 -0400: I greatly love this extension, but what annoys me a little is that there is no way I can find to arrange the search engines in the succession I want them, but always appear in the succession of their installs. Maybe in future versions that could be implemented? Either in an options field or a "right click and drag" process.

I would greatly appreciate that!

If anyway knows how to rearrange their listing now, I would also greatly if they could post that information here.

Thank you.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
[32] Submitted by: TwinSun on Friday 20th August 2004 at 12:20 -0400: If I understand well, this extension is the one given by default with Firefox. When I want to add a new search engine, I use the option in the list and firefox send me to your website. But when I click on a link, I have a message that told me the search engine is going to be added and nothing happens in the list.

Can you help me please ?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040809 Firefox/0.9.3
[33] Submitted by: mat @ mycroft on Friday 20th August 2004 at 21:27 -0400: You need to have write access to the searchplugins directory to install search plugins. By default, if your Linux install is global, only root can install search plugins. Work arounds include:

1. Install the browser yourself, in your home directory.

2. Have your user account given write access to the global searchplugins directory.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040816
[34] Submitted by: ketjow on Friday 27th August 2004 at 10:06 -0400: In all Wikipedias searchplugins there's an error - it must only send the search - variable to the site, not all the other ones, which case it not to work
Greetings

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040807 Firefox/0.9.3
[35] Submitted by: Vladimir on Saturday 4th September 2004 at 06:10 -0400: In the plugin "sa.dir.bg EN - BG" there is a bug. It works only for latin letters, but not cyrillic leters. Would it be possible to correct this. Thanks, in advance.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
[36] Submitted by: TwinSun on Sunday 10th October 2004 at 06:40 -0400: Thanks mat, it works. I have chmoded a+w the directory searchplugins. I have 2 remarks about this :

- Why the plugin doesn't print an error message when adding a search engine that can't be added because of the directory permissions ?
- Why the plugin doesn't use a userdirectory with the global directory (for example : ~/.firefox/plugins/searchplugin/)

Damien

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040928 Firefox/0.9.3
[37] Submitted by: arno on Monday 11th October 2004 at 20:59 -0400: The plugin for the search engine of the MySQL.com website does not give any results.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
[38] Submitted by: Adrian on Tuesday 12th October 2004 at 04:38 -0400: The BBC News and BBC Sport search plugins return BBC's 404 page.

Adrian

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
[39] Submitted by: BinJo on Wednesday 27th October 2004 at 06:36 -0400: I'd like to support Panthere's request: Is there any way to sort the plugins? Which is the sort criteria and how does mycroft remember that order? (Background: With some 40 or so plugins looking for the right plugin takes nearly as much time as typing the URL.)

Apart from that: Thanks for great work!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
[40] Submitted by: Cornelius on Tuesday 2nd November 2004 at 07:33 -0500: Is anyone maintaining the search plugins any more? I wrote a plugin several months ago and never got nay feedback. Is this project dead?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041101 Firefox/1.0RC2
[41] Submitted by: ricky @ mycroft on Sunday 7th November 2004 at 06:24 -0500: Cornelius,

No, this project is not dead. But real life has taken over so only little spare time remains. Adding new engines is only one of many tasks, and another one is about keeping the current engines up-to-date. If you feel you can help, get in touch with me.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115
[42] Submitted by: Nevermore78 on Wednesday 5th January 2005 at 11:53 -0500: I realized that the Altavista seach doesn't work with accents and other symbols (like the spanish "�")
I think that adding this lines in the SEARCH section of the .src code will correct it:

queryEncoding="utf-8"
queryCharset="utf-8"

Greetings
Nevermore78

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
[43] Submitted by: Scarred Sun on Wednesday 26th January 2005 at 12:04 -0500: I too have tried to send requested plug-ins and never received response.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
[44] Submitted by: andrew on Thursday 27th January 2005 at 16:52 -0500: I've sent in about 6 plugins. one was a replacment to a surfwax plugin that some other guy made but the link was disabled to download it because it was "broken"

why haven't my plugins been added yet? please help!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
[45] Submitted by: Roland.grimont on Sunday 30th January 2005 at 11:25 -0500: I subscribed this mailing list because it seemed to be the only way to send plugins.
I have a plugin (I am not the author, I don't know his name but I thank him for his job) to play MODS (amiga songs - very small size) in web pages. This could be interresting to make this plugin available for other users. How can I proceed?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
[46] Submitted by: sean on Monday 31st January 2005 at 05:46 -0500: I have submitted two plugins: one completely new and the other an updated version of an older "broken" plugin. In both cases, no response. Is this project dead?

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
[47] Submitted by: john on Saturday 12th February 2005 at 02:57 -0500: I think the plugin for TigerDirect.com (updated 06.10.2004) should be removed from the directory because, instead of sending the search directly to TigerDirect.com, it is send through ValueClick which is an advertising company.

This is the action URL in the tigerdirect.src file:
http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=26399296&siteid=40172686&bfpage=bf_advance&bfurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdirect.com%2Fapplications%2FSearchTools%2Fsearch.asp

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
[48] Submitted by: duga on Monday 14th February 2005 at 15:00 -0500: ok !!!site muy bueno

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
[49] Submitted by: brasil on Monday 14th February 2005 at 15:01 -0500: I think the plugin for TigerDirect.com (updated 06.10.2004) should be removed from the directory because, instead of sending the search directly to TigerDirect.com, it is send through ValueClick which is an advertising company.

This is the action URL in the tigerdirect.src file:
http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=26399296&siteid=40172686&bfpage=bf_advance&bfurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdirect.com%2Fapplications%2FSearchTools%2Fsearch.asp
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
[50] Submitted by: utah on Tuesday 15th February 2005 at 16:14 -0500: Dude, wazzup with Mycroft?! I too have sent in plugins (to correct broken ones) and haven't seen a response for weeks.
Ho sad! Such a cool project. And vital feature to Firefox, I think.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0
[51] Submitted by: elgranmojon on Wednesday 2nd March 2005 at 13:26 -0500: what about the wikipedias searchplugin problem a guy mentioned above?

Someone please fix it...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
[52] Submitted by: Alan on Saturday 5th March 2005 at 14:45 -0500: Upgraded to Firefox 1.0.1 and now can't add search engines without crashing Firefox

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
[53] Submitted by: pogo747 on Monday 7th March 2005 at 03:39 -0500: mycroft hasn't been updated in months and i wish the admins would open up the site administration to a select few volunteers. i do not believe that no one has answered the call to contribute, seeing as how important search plugins are.

i submitted a dozen plugins 4 months ago and got 1 response: that my plugin was already added. i've given up and started hosting my plugins at my own site:

http://www.sugarcloud.com/plugins/

feel free to drop by. i may add plugins/fixes written by other people if there is a big enough demand to do so. so far, it's just my stuff on there

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
[54] Submitted by: Andy B on Monday 14th March 2005 at 07:19 -0500: Agreed. I'll volunteer, and it's too cool a project to just let die. Who do we contact about this?

If you want to get in touch for an admin, mail me at ducky_fuzz at neodynium.com

For now, I'll go to sugarcloud.com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
[55] Submitted by: localhost on Tuesday 15th March 2005 at 05:58 -0500: Reply on #52.
I can't reproduce this on neither Windows XP nor Fedora 2. Perhaps you can create a new profile and try if the problem still exists within the new profile. You don't need to delete your old profile!

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
[56] Submitted by: Josef Meile on Monday 4th April 2005 at 12:27 -0400: I like this pluging. The only thing I dislike is the fact that you have a global searchplugins folder for all users, which means that if you are using linux, you need to have write access to be able to add a new engine. Yes, it is enough with a chmod or a chown, but:

1) The problem with the shared global settings is that in some cases user A don't want to have some Engines while user B want to have them, so, there is a conflict here.

2) Other problem is concerning to security: I don't think you like other users being able to write/delete everything there.

So, my suggestion would be to create a local "searchplugins" for each user profile.

Regards,
Josef

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0.2
[57] Submitted by: datz on Wednesday 20th April 2005 at 06:44 -0400: Reply on #52 and #55

Theres a bug in the Win32 version which crashes FF when you click in the search bar (or at least when you click that small triangle to list all installed search plugins) directly after starting the search plugin installation.
Probably because the files are not downloaded yet.

Solution:
Just give Firefox about 15 seconds after starting a search plugin installation before and before clicking the search bar.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
[58] Submitted by: datz @ mycroft on Wednesday 20th April 2005 at 06:52 -0400: as answer to many postings here:

We have currently several thousand emails in our mailbox which are waiting to be reviewed. So it can take up to several month until your submitted plugins are released. We can no longer promise to send a reply to each of your emails.

If you want to help us, use the new [Judge it!] links to give us some feedback about the plugins quality.

If you have a lot of time and want to contribute to the mycroft project, send an email to the mailing list.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
[59] Submitted by: datz @ mycroft on Wednesday 20th April 2005 at 06:55 -0400: reply on #56

I think you are right, but you will have to contact the Mozilla team directly with that issue.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
[60] Submitted by: Felix on Thursday 21st April 2005 at 01:54 -0400: Hi datz!

Thanks for the Telefonbuch-search bar but is it also possible to enter the address (Wohnort) right away or can I just enter the name and proceed with additional search information on the actual Telefonbuch-site?

Thanks, Felix

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
[61] Submitted by: datz @ mycroft on Thursday 21st April 2005 at 04:29 -0400: reply on #60
It isn't possible to commit more than one value with the search bar (yet).
The DasTelefonbuch plugin can only search for names which will give u up to several hundred results.
But you can improve the results by searching eg. for 'Mueller Heinz' instead of 'Mueller'.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
[62] Submitted by: .:.geber.:. on Thursday 21st April 2005 at 06:24 -0400: Searchplugin f�r www.scx.hu an archiv for expensive stock photography.

http://www.sxc.hu/info.phtml?f=about#searchplugin
http://www.sxc.hu/src/sxc.src

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
[63] Submitted by: jurgencachia on Friday 13th May 2005 at 04:36 -0400: www.dvdpacific.com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[64] Submitted by: John on Saturday 28th May 2005 at 03:53 -0400: I just wanted to comment on the Search Engine called alltheweb. This is one of the best, not only because of its reliablilty, but becasue of its capability. Alltheweb enters you query into over 200 other search engines, including Google, and then collates the results into one listing. It is amazing how many responses you get to even the most essoteric requests.

Regards -

John

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[65] Submitted by: Magyar on Tuesday 31st May 2005 at 04:03 -0400: magyar

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu-HU; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[66] Submitted by: anonymous on Wednesday 1st June 2005 at 05:30 -0400: Bad search-plugin www.softoninc.com

Esta malo el plugin para buscar en softonic.

Firefox la Yeah!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[67] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Saturday 4th June 2005 at 03:01 -0400: Re [66]. Pluggin is fine, the site is down,

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[68] Submitted by: Andy on Monday 6th June 2005 at 14:23 -0400: Cannot submit a plugin:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare getlatestchanges() (previously declared in /mozdev/sandbox/data/helm/htdoc/mycroft/www/functions.inc.php:33) in /mozdev/sandbox/data/helm/htdoc/mycroft/www/functions.inc.php on line 33

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[69] Submitted by: Andy on Monday 6th June 2005 at 16:15 -0400: RE: 68 looks like it has been fixed. Thanks.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[70] Submitted by: Brian the Snail on Tuesday 7th June 2005 at 18:14 -0400: DogpileUK plugin attempts to restrict search to UK sites using the 'engineset' keyword. Dogpile UK seems to require this to be set to the value "uk-only_oando" rather than just "uk-only" as specified in the current plugin.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[71] Submitted by: Alibris Guy on Wednesday 8th June 2005 at 12:48 -0400: Hi,

We submitted an "official" Alibris search plug-in in response to request 594 in Feb and March 05. I guess that they were eaten by the queue at the time.

A non-Alibris volunteer (Sparra MC) kindly submitted one. We appreciate the effort, but unfortunately, our name is misspelled, the favicon isn't ours, we're miscategorized in Arts / Literature instead of Shopping, and well, we like ours better. :D

Can we get the other one removed to avoid any confusion?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[72] Submitted by: Tyler Adams on Thursday 9th June 2005 at 19:45 -0400: Hi. I want to know how the Sherlock engine works. I would just live to know exactly what it does. I want to be able to use "post"for some sites that don't use "GET". I know other people have said it but this time I want to see how the sherlock works. Also could there be a graph showing the plugins submitted each day. I think it would be intersesting to watch. Thanks, and I have made 2 plugins. w00t.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[73] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Friday 10th June 2005 at 23:52 -0400: I see that Tiny URL pluggin has been fixed. I downloaded it and tried it and it appeared not to be working so I voted for it broken. But it actually works. User error.
The url expects to be submitted without http://
ie:http://cnn.com/
dies
but
cnn.com
works just fine.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[74] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Saturday 11th June 2005 at 02:46 -0400: Problem is it's still broken. With the Mozilla tinyurl extension or the tiny url bookmarklette you can save entire queries. After all that is what it's for making extra long url's into short ones. This search extension dies on that so my vote is delete it. It's pointless there is already two other better methods.
http://tinyurl.com/duqnc

[javascript:void(location.href='http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url='+location.href)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[75] Submitted by: Jon G. on Monday 27th June 2005 at 02:12 -0400: ATTN:

I just uploaded a plugin I made for the Internet Adult Film Database (iafd.com). I notice it had reportedly been requested for over a year.

Let me know if it works for you guys, works for me.

regards,

Jon (juggo2@gmail.com)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[76] Submitted by: Tim Meader on Wednesday 29th June 2005 at 04:34 -0400: I searched around, and couldn't find a plugin yet for PirateBay. So, I went ahead and made one. Let me know what you guys think. It should work with the Search Bar in Mozilla Suite as well.

Note: don't get the one for "The Pirate Bay". Somehow the icon got screwed up. Just "Pirate Bay".

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[77] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Saturday 2nd July 2005 at 17:30 -0400: Could I get somebody to delete the pluggin by me for metacritic* via google? I fixed it and reuploaded it already and the old broken one is still on the list.

Thanks

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[78] Submitted by: ricky @ mycroft on Sunday 3rd July 2005 at 04:43 -0400: in reply to [71]

Alibris Guy, I haven't been able to find your plugin in the submissions. Can you please upload it through the new upload tool and mention the problem with the current plugin? Thanks

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
[79] Submitted by: ricky @ mycroft on Sunday 3rd July 2005 at 04:49 -0400: in reply to [72]

Tyler Adams, the source of mozilla is open. Have a look at it. Even though this answer looks elitist, that's really the only answer I can give, since I don't know more than you...

http://lxr.mozilla.org/aviary101branch/search?string=searchbar could be a starting point

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
[80] Submitted by: LouCypher on Sunday 3rd July 2005 at 12:27 -0400: I just noticed that new submitted plugins were placed in mycroft.mozdev.org/nowrapper/submit-install.php/v/* directory (not mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins). This will cause trouble with the update tag.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[81] Submitted by: Alibris Guy on Tuesday 5th July 2005 at 12:01 -0400: in reply to [78]

I resubmitted our plugin via the new upload tool shortly after my original message in early June [71]. It showed up as a downloadable plugin right after download. It's been almost a month though, and our domain name still isn't showing up in the ().

The other plugin by Parra that had some errors has been taken down. It looks like another volunteer, Naotaka, has come up with some more specific Alibris plugins for title, author, and ISBN, and these appear to be working ok. :)

Thanks,

Steve

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[82] Submitted by: Pau Garcia i Quiles on Friday 15th July 2005 at 06:10 -0400: Alibris Guy:

I created 21 seach plugins for Alibris in November 2004. I sent an e-mail to Alibris customer service telling them about this, but I got no response.

You can find my plugins for Alibris here:
http://www.elpauer.org/index.php?p=146

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
[83] Submitted by: Battleshock on Tuesday 19th July 2005 at 16:44 -0400: I was making plugins, but I got into a little bit of a problem. My searchbar doesn't work. I made a plugin not have a picture. Now I can't switch search plugins. Can someone help me.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
[84] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Wednesday 20th July 2005 at 12:06 -0400: Re: 83

Just move your pluggin out of the folder and make a icon for it. 16 X 16 png works best. When your pluggin is removed if you start up the program again it should vanish from the list. Plunking it back in and starting the program again it should be in the list.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
[85] Submitted by: qbxk on Friday 22nd July 2005 at 00:13 -0400: wondering how a plugin achieves "tested" status? who has the authority to test?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[86] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Friday 22nd July 2005 at 15:15 -0400: Re: 85. I think it's on votes. If enough people vote for it then it gets "working" But nothing here explains that so nobody votes, or very few anyway. They need a feed back graph that shows votes so people can see that there vote counts, be it working or broken. If they checked the date of said votes they could figure out when the last time it was tested fairly easy.

The way it works now is people come here grab there search extension and are off on there way. Let's just say it talks awhile to get a working status on new pluggins with the new system. They used to check them by hand before. The graph they have now is deceiving. The working is lower than it should be the yellow part and the checked in the last year is growing too fast, the red part. there coming off the top graph marked in yellow and getting added to the red part on the graph below. Somebody is working on it though.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
[87] Submitted by: Jeff Vanzetti on Monday 25th July 2005 at 16:46 -0400: The Internet Adult Film Database (iafd.com) has its own Mycroft plug-in, which is similar to Jon G's but the internals are a little bit different.

http://www.iafd.com/mozilla.asp

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[88] Submitted by: Olivier Mignault on Friday 29th July 2005 at 16:01 -0400: I've just submitted the filecloud plugin, it works very well. however, I made an error when I was asked to enter a url for the description.. The full url should be http://www.filecloud.com/files/search.php

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
[89] Submitted by: Olivier Mignault on Friday 29th July 2005 at 20:08 -0400: I was able to fix that by updating the file - it seems the output it cached for now.. looks fine

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
[90] Submitted by: G. Werner on Sunday 31st July 2005 at 12:02 -0400: Dear staff,

I'd like to direct your attention to item [80].

The plugins uploaded with the new upload tool can be accessed under http://mycroft.mozdev.org/nowrapper/submit-install.php/v/xxxx/plugin.src but the upload tool does reject this in the update tags stating: "Error: Update URI does not point to Mycroft plugins directory." Which would be http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/plugin.src where the new plugins aren't going to be ... just the old ones.

Wondering when this bug will be fixed.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
[91] Submitted by: MASA on Friday 5th August 2005 at 20:29 -0400: If you ever look at the you notice that many people request plugins already made. Maybe if their was somesort of javascript that fires up when one hits submit, GETs the URL and then compares it with the URLs of already made plugins and then returns a page or adds a box saying "I have found a plugin that has already been made. You may download it here. [link] If you think there has been a mistake you can do blah blah blah." It will save more time with less requests and maybe a javascript or something that scans the current list to see if a plugin has been done.

Those are my ideas,
MASA

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[92] Submitted by: MASA on Friday 5th August 2005 at 20:35 -0400: RE:72.

Normally sites that have POST will not work if converted to GET (though there are a few that do work) in order to change such get the Web Devoloper Toolbar (that is what I use to change POSTS to GETS but rember it doesn't work with every site).

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Developer%20Tools&numpg=10&id=60

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[93] Submitted by: Broken on Saturday 20th August 2005 at 17:34 -0400: Can someone make it so when your plugin has over 5 diffrent votes for like the plugin is broken it emails the creator. Then it stops emailing you.

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[94] Submitted by: Stephanie on Saturday 20th August 2005 at 22:31 -0400: I'm trying to add the IMDB plugin to Firefox but it won't add. I click on Add Engines and then the link for IMDB. I get a box asking me if I want to add it and I click OK but then nothing happens and it's not added to the list of engines.

I'm using an iBook G4.

Can you please let me know how to install the IMDB plugin?

Thanks!!

Stephanie
jurismorte@optonline.net

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[95] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Sunday 28th August 2005 at 04:12 -0400: Re: 94

Firefox is blocking this site from installing software. That's a good thing. Now when you try to install it look up at the top right of the web page. See that extra bar that shows up that says Firefox is blocking this site form installing software? Edit the options and allow this site. Click the link again it will then install.

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[96] Submitted by: Stephanie on Sunday 11th September 2005 at 21:44 -0400: Re: 94

Thanks for the suggestion, Mighty Pete. Unfortunately, the extra bar isn't showing up. I tried adding the mycroft.mozdev.org site as an allowed site for downloading and it still doesn't work.

I checked the searchplugins folder and none of the plugins I've tried to download are there.

Any other ideas??

Thanks!

Stephanie

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[97] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Monday 12th September 2005 at 11:24 -0400: Well it's mot really a extra bar per say. It's kind of added to the top of the web page you are viewing. One other thing to check is java, This site uses java code for the install to work so make sure you have that turned on also. Oh one more thing you have to have the java pluggin installed from Sun. If it's not installed you may see a go get the pluggin icon.

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#q2.2

I'd check java first then I can't seem to find a allow this site to install software for this site in my list so it may be a java problem you are having.

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[98] Submitted by: Stephanie on Monday 12th September 2005 at 16:59 -0400: Thanks again, MP.

Unfortunately, the FAQ you sent me to says that JRE 1.4.2 won't work with Firefox and that Applets would use 1.3.1. How do I find JRE 1.3.1 to download it for Mac OS X?

Sorry to be such a pest but I really love the IMDB search plugin.

Thanks!!

Stephanie

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[99] Submitted by: Charles at Mycroft on Monday 12th September 2005 at 17:21 -0400: Just to say that we don't use any Java - only Javascript which will need to be enabled (Tools | Options | Web Features | Enable Javascript) Are you able to download any plugins? If that's still no good, email us at mycroft-admin AT iseli DOT org and will try and diagnose the problem.

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[100] Submitted by: Stephanie on Monday 12th September 2005 at 18:20 -0400: Hi, Charles.

In my Firefox preferences, I have both Java and Javascript enabled.

I am able to download other plugins. For instance, I just downloaded the Macromedia Flash Player 7 plugin.

I will e-mail you with the details so that you can try and diagnose the problem.

Thanks!

Stephanie

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[101] Submitted by: Jacinta Stowers on Monday 12th September 2005 at 22:35 -0400: this is the most wonderful experience to let it know things about the outer world.

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[102] Submitted by: ahecht on Sunday 18th September 2005 at 02:20 -0400: With the update mechanism broken, is there any way to update plugins? A site I had created a plugin for changed their logo, and I would like to be able to upload a new icon for the plugin.

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[103] Submitted by: MASA on Sunday 18th September 2005 at 16:11 -0400: RE:102
No.

All your mozdev are belong to 404.
Unforunately, mozdev is down so everything is visible but can't be changed.

You can email. (Which I have been talkin to the admin, and he says that he can't see anything related to mozdev).

You will just have to wait for mozdev to be fixed

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[104] Submitted by: MASA on Sunday 18th September 2005 at 16:16 -0400: why does onestat track us.

It has our IP, where we live and our provider.

Our refer (YAY for refcontroler), and our page views. (wants to use Tor now that he saw this).

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[105] Submitted by: Tsee on Sunday 2nd October 2005 at 13:42 -0400: I think that Request #948 (lrb.com - London Review of Books) is unfortunately invalid, as both the Quick Search form on their homepage and the detailed search form use POST.

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[106] Submitted by: Mighty Pete on Monday 24th October 2005 at 22:03 -0400: Request number 973 is impossible.

I uses a 5 minute timer on a limited amount of public connections. Ever 5 minutes you would need a new pluggin.

Library of Congress Online Catalog

The SEQ number kills any possibility of it ever working properly.

You would be better off making a bookmark for this page.

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[107] Submitted by: Emel on Sunday 27th November 2005 at 13:56 -0500: Free Webmaster Directory

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[108] Submitted by: free on Sunday 27th November 2005 at 14:07 -0500: Free Webmaster Directory http://www.chat-sohbet.com

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[109] Submitted by: liam on Wednesday 30th November 2005 at 03:43 -0500: i think the 1.5 update broke search plug ins. i currently have a big list of search plugs in in my firefox which are not in the searchplugin folder on my computer.

i can't delete them or use them.

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[110] Submitted by: mwalimu on Wednesday 30th November 2005 at 15:29 -0500: When I installed Firefox 1.5, all of my add-on search plugins from the earlier version were lost (I had only a few that apparently came pre-configured with Firefox).

I tried to reinstall four of them from mozdev. Only one worked. Using View Source, it appears there are two different types of search plugins, "nowrapper" and "plugins". The one that worked was a "plugins" type, while the three that failed were all of the "nowrapper" type. The files were created for all of them in my searchplugins directory, but the ones that failed had blank .png icons, and the .src files contained only the line "Access denied for user: 'petejc@localhost' (Using password: NO)". (petejc is not my ID, and I have no idea who it is).

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[111] Submitted by: mwalimu on Wednesday 30th November 2005 at 15:31 -0500: When I installed Firefox 1.5, all of my add-on search plugins from the earlier version were lost (I had only a few that apparently came pre-configured with Firefox).

I tried to reinstall four of them from mozdev. Only one worked. Using View Source, it appears there are two different types of search plugins, "nowrapper" and "plugins" (if you mouse over the link for the plugin and look at the url on the bottom of the screen, the "plugins" have a 0 for the last parameter and the "nowrapper" have a non-zero number). The one that worked was a "plugins" type, while the three that failed were all of the "nowrapper" type. The files were created for all of them in my searchplugins directory, but the ones that failed had blank .png icons, and the .src files contained only the line "Access denied for user: 'petejc@localhost' (Using password: NO)". (petejc is not my ID, and I have no idea who it is).

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[112] Submitted by: Stephanie on Wednesday 30th November 2005 at 19:59 -0500: I'm a little relieved to see some people are having search plugin problems after upgrading to 1.5.

I just upgraded to 1.07 (yes, I'm a little slow) and all of my search plugins disappeared from my Search Bar.

I've checked the searchplugins folder and both the .src and .png files are in there for IMDB...which is the one I'm most interested in.

Can someone tell me exactly where the searchplugins folder should be located to make sure that Firefox recognizes it? I seem to have put the folder everywhere in an attempt to get this to work and now I'm not sure where I should leave it and where I can delete it.

I had this problem once before with losing the searchplugins. I don't remember doing anything special and it sort of fixed itself. I can't get it to do that again.

Help!

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[113] Submitted by: Vg on Saturday 3rd December 2005 at 03:59 -0500: Firefox 1.5 - none of the search plug-ins work. None.

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[114] Submitted by: Stephanie on Sunday 4th December 2005 at 13:16 -0500: Ok...I've fixed the problem for 1.0.7. Apparently, the issue was that I had Firefox in my Macintosh HD and not in my Applications folder. Once I put it in my Applications folder, the plugins I'd already added showed up and any new ones I tried to add, installed just fine.

Don't know if that's the same issue with FF 1.5.

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[115] Submitted by: localhost on Monday 5th December 2005 at 01:25 -0500: In reply to the problems with the searchplugins and Firefox 1.5. In the new version, the plugins are stored in your profile, not in the Firefox installation directory. I would suggest to create a new profile and then install some of your favorite plugins using the mycroft website. See if the plugins work.

If so, you can move your plugins from the old location to the new one or delete all plugins and then install the ones you want.

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[116] Submitted by: Jeff on Monday 5th December 2005 at 11:59 -0500: Will the categories be returning? Searching for a specific plugin is fine, as long as I know what I want. However, I often have a general idea in mind and not a specific search engine. It's easier to find good things I never new existed when browsing by catagory.

(Not really the best place to mention here, but it's on my mind - Upgrading to Firefox 1.5 eradicated all my plugins. Yes, I should have read the notes and saved my stuff, etc, etc, but I didn't lose it when I upgraded before and was annoyed when I lost them on this upgrade. But that's another matter...)

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[117] Submitted by: Olivier on Monday 5th December 2005 at 16:48 -0500: Let me second that. It is very irritating to have to play a game of charade instead of simply browsing through a list.

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[118] Submitted by: Charles at Mycroft on Monday 5th December 2005 at 22:04 -0500: Jeff, Olivier
Yes, categories will be returning... in the mean time, if you want to search by category, please use the advanced search (I realise it's not quite as convenient)

The reason it disappeared along with other things was that the table was being created by a horribly messy sql query that wasn't helping with the 1.5 release related load issues. Someone has also volunteered to do a bit of organising in terms of categories so categories and some statistics should reappear over the next couple of weeks.

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[119] Submitted by: Crogon on Wednesday 14th December 2005 at 13:50 -0500: 4000+ plugins??? Wow, someones been busy. last time I was here there were only a couple hundred! O.o

Is there a contact if you want to pitch in and help with the categorization, or do they have it covered?

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[120] Submitted by: Charles at Mycroft on Saturday 17th December 2005 at 17:40 -0500: Crogon, please see this bug:
http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12504
and contact me through that means.

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[121] Submitted by: Z on Tuesday 7th February 2006 at 15:16 -0500: Two suggestions...can't imagine they'd be too hard to implement...

1. A link to view the plugin source directly
2. A way for contributors to add comments or notes on plugins that users can see...it can be hard to know what exactly some of these plugins are from the information available

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[122] Submitted by: Daniel on Wednesday 15th March 2006 at 16:27 -0500: Completed a request for plugin: pinkmonkey website
hense this plugin can be taken down from the request list.

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[123] Submitted by: Paul on Thursday 23rd March 2006 at 02:25 -0500: Hello;

Sorry to trouble you, but I haven't been able to get the mycroft search toolbar to work for several months. Clicking on the magnifying glass icon results in an empty menubar (save for "Add more search engines". I'll then install toolbars, but they won't show up as having been installed.

The problem arose after a failed attempt to install the updated version of Firefox. Eventually I was able to get it to install after deleting firefox completely and reinstalling it and all the add-ons from scratch. Ever since then, though, I haven't been able to get mycroft to work.

I've been able to make due without it so far, but it would be nice if it worked again.

Thank you for your time.

(Windows XP) Firefox/1.05.01

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[124] Submitted by: Ben Harris on Friday 28th April 2006 at 22:27 -0400: I must be the only one with this problem, but for some reason the Wikipedia search plugin will not display in my searchbar. I must be the only one. I get a blank search plugin which I can delete with the searchpluginhack but I can't make it work. Any tips?
Ben2@.gl.umbc.edu

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[125] Submitted by: Charles at Mycroft on Saturday 29th April 2006 at 14:31 -0400: Re Comment 124
See if http://kb.mozillazine.org/Search_engines_disappear_from_Search_Bar helps.

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[126] Submitted by: HK on Saturday 13th May 2006 at 01:37 -0400: the update lost my bookmarks a engine cant load

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[127] Submitted by: ignacio alvestegui on Saturday 20th May 2006 at 17:22 -0400: i want' to DOWNLOAD MOZILLA to my computer, an eMAC with software
10.4.6

Thanks.
Ignacio Alvestegui
jaalvesteguia@yahoo.com

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