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Building a Firefox Search Add-on For Drupal.org
I was having trouble locating a good Firefox search add-on for searching drupal.org. A Google search or two reveals a couple of add-ons created by community members in the past couple of years that do searches of drupal.org via a Google search (using the "site:drupal.org" keyword). I know, however, that the searches on drupal.org recently received an overhaul (using Apache Solr) and now, searching on the actual drupal.org search is actually more efficient than a Google search in many cases. Especially if you know how to make quick use of the right sidebar of the search page which makes use of faceted search.
I knew it couldn't be that difficult to build a search plugin for Firefox, so I began searching the Mozilla site for instructions on that. If you're interested in doing this on your own, you can find out how to build what's called an "OpenSearch plugin" for Firefox at: Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox
If you'd like to download the add-on that I built and begin searching Drupal.org from Firefox, click on the screenshot below:
It's actually really easy to create and basically all you're writing is an XML file that's structured in a specific way. Then, if you want to make your search plugin public, you need to create an account on Mozilla.org, visit the "Developer Tools" section, and upload your add-on so that others can begin downloading it.
And here's the XML code that I ended up with for the search:
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>Drupal.org</ShortName>
<Description>Search drupal.org</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">http://drupal.org/misc/favicon.ico</Image>
<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/{searchTerms}"></Url>
<moz:SearchForm>http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/</moz:SearchForm>
</OpenSearchDescription>Tags:
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Nice!
Hey, This is awesome! Thanks for making this addon. You are a genius.
Great Add on
That is such a great addon. Nice Job, and I know it takes a lot of skill to make these things. Anyway Thanks for sharing this with us.
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I am using some Drupal feature and also use Joomla Template for My SEO campaign and site design which are closely related with SEO services and thanks for such a nice trips and useful article
Bangladesh Bloggers
Hi,
I am Md. nasirul huq. I am from bangladesh. I am using some plugins for my site but that is another CMS. Any can send me some information what I need for use wordpress plug in. I already use this for my existing wordpress site,
Thanks
nasirul huq
http://nirvana-bd.com
OpenSearch Plugin
Here's the Drupal module!
http://drupal.org/project/opensearchplugin
Nice to know about it
Hello man ,
Myself is Hari K T from India .
Just downloaded the search plugin. Nice work . I may have used the google cse for it :P
Have a great day .
Hari K T
http://harikt.com
Just download the 'Add to
Just download the 'Add to search bar' extension, and you can right click on any search box on the web and add it to te search bar. You can do this with d.o, g.d.o and a.d.o.
If you install 'peers' you'll get auto completion too.
Are you sure need an
Are you sure need an extension? I've been doing this for a while now both in Firefox and Opera. In Firefox when you right click on the search box you should see an "Add a Keyword for this search" option.
I'm not seeing that when I
I'm not seeing that when I right-click, so I definitely still need this. Hopefully others will find it beneficial as well.
Maybe the "Add a Keyword..." is coming from another add-on you have installed?