Weblog entry #68 for simonw

Debian related Firefox Search Engines

Posted by simonw on Thu 27 Jul 2006 at 11:31

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Having just written a 'search engine plug-in' to allow me to search for customer domain names in our accounts database in Firefox, I figured it would be handy to have some for common Debian queries.

Of course others had this very same thought before.

Follow the link, click the useful looking plug-ins and you are away.

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=debian&sherlock=yes&opensearch=&submitform=Search

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Posted by sno (62.254.xx.xx) on Fri 28 Jul 2006 at 01:17
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thanks for this, useful addition instead of google debian bugs on its own. Any chance of adding debian-administration to the list if Steve finds no problem?

I find myself using the search here often, not sure about anyone else.

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Posted by simonw (212.24.xx.xx) on Fri 28 Jul 2006 at 10:04
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http://simonwaters.technocool.net/firefox/

Haven't tested the auto-update yet.

Haven't tried hacking your desktop via this mechanism ;)

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Posted by Steve (62.30.xx.xx) on Fri 28 Jul 2006 at 18:35
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I have no objection. I guess there are three cases:

Tag search
Article search
Weblog search

The latter might be a good thing to add as right now it is only available via the planet site. I could add the search on this site too I guess?

Right now the search needs work since it returns 100+ articles when you search for simple things like "apt-get" which limits the usefulness.

ObRelated: Planet Debian Searching.

Steve

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Posted by sno (62.254.xx.xx) on Fri 28 Jul 2006 at 20:29
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excellent :D thanks im not sure how interesting hacking my searches would be ;P

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Posted by simonw (84.45.xx.xx) on Sat 29 Jul 2006 at 12:25
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Okay added a blog search, but we have tag search? We have a tag cloud....

These are trivial little subsets of the form on the existing search pages that already exist packaged for Firefox, so dead easy to write.

Really the challenge would be to write a plugin, that finds forms with only one text field and figures out how to make searchengine plugins automatically. Simple bit of javascript should do it.

This should wait till someone creates a package to make a dummy menu out of the menu creation stuff in the Debian packages. i.e. Find all packages that create a menu item in the Debian repository, create a menu called "install on click", and create a dummy entry that installs each uninstalled package when its dummy entry is clicked. How hard can it be?

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