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» Thursday, November 10, 2005 «
Firefox search plugin for p2b
It was the p2b launch today. In celebration of my sorting out some problems with it before the launch I wrote a quick search plugin for Firefox which adds them as a search engine to my Firefox search box.
Key info that helped me sort this out in short order were:
The little gif/png that goes with the code needs to be 16x16 pixels, which wasn't completely clear until I got past the initial part where it tells you to make the image.
If you want to delete a search plugin while you're testing, go to the directory (folder): c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\ and delete the .src and .png for that search.
Key info that helped me sort this out in short order were:
- The Mycroft extensions page
- Shadow's example
- Simple plugin examples
- Installing on a server
- Search plugin validator from Mindzilla
The little gif/png that goes with the code needs to be 16x16 pixels, which wasn't completely clear until I got past the initial part where it tells you to make the image.
If you want to delete a search plugin
If you want to delete a search plugin while you're testing, go to the directory (folder): c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\ and delete the .src and .png for that search.
