Integration with vBulletin - Search Your Site From Firefox

Everyone knows that little box in the top right of firefox that contains search engines such as google, ask, blah blah.

Well now you can have you're own site searched right from that nifty box, not that anyone ever uses it, but hey atleast you can be cool and have your own, right?
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1. Heres how its done, replace SITE with the your site information,to point to your search.php page.

<search
version="7.1"
name="SITE Search"
description="SITE search engine description"
action="http://SITE.com/forums/search.php?do=process&"
searchForm="http://www.SITE.com"
method="GET"
>

<input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search">
<input name="showposts=0&quicksearch=1&query" user="">

</search>

Copy and paste that, into a file called yoursitename.src and save it inside Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins

Create a 16x16 pixel icon, give it the same name as your plug-in, and save it as either a .jpg or .png graphics file. Then, put it in the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins folder

Then just share your .src file with your users telling them where to install.

EXAMPLE: to search vB.org. copy and paste this into notepad file, save as vBulletinORG.src under the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins folder

<search
version="7.1"
name="vBulletin.org Search"
description="vBulletin.org Search w000oooh000"
action="http://vbulletin.org/forum/search.php?do=process&"
searchForm="http://www.vbulletin.org"
method="GET"
>

<input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search">
<input name="showposts=0&quicksearch=1&query" user="">

</search>

I'll help you out the best i can, so just ask.

[therocks]

great idea... i'm using a mac and firefox v1.5.0.6 ... i had to get to the searchplugins folder a little differently but i got there.. it's working perfectly! thanks alot..

[Ntfu2]

Glad to hear.

do you mind sharing the location for future mac users

[Breaker]

what do you mean no1 uses, i use it daily

thanks alot

[Milad]

Very Good

Thank you

[Mattikana]

http://www.captain.at/howto-firefox-...rch-engine.php

much more userfriendly.. the way you want us to install it is too sloppy imho.. make use of the javascript function

[Ntfu2]

i dont understand, whats the difference between that one and the one i made above?

[ctrl-alt-del]

Very useful. Thank you!! Now I have a request. Please create this mod for Internet Explorer 7.

[Mattikana]

Originally Posted by Ntfu2

i dont understand, whats the difference between that one and the one i made above?

now I every user of my forum has to download 2 files and put them in the proper folder. with the javascript trick you can do this much easier. (i.e. just click on a link)

https://addons.mozilla.org/search-engines.php

On the site above you can simply add one by clicking them. can't be hard to make a mod for this

edit: also check this site out. Make the Search box appear and click on Mozilla Search Plugins.

[ctrl-alt-del]

If you want a custom icon to appear, append this to the end:

<BROWSER
        updateIcon="https://www.site.com/icon.png"
        updateCheckDays="3"
	>

(Just change out the details of course)

I think it will accept .png, .gif and maybe even .jpg.