After reading Pauls’ Stamatiou article on How to make a Firefox search plugin for a wordpress site, I’ve decided to make one for this site. So here you go. The link bellow should install it for you. If it doesn’t work let me know and I will try and fix it. Or you can use the Mycroft Mozdev.org Search Page.

This site works with search plugins

Welcome to the Google Extensions for Firefox page. Extensions are small applications that you download and install into your Firefox browser to add new functionality. We hope you enjoy these extensions!

Go google, yeah.

Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

   network.http.pipelining
   network.http.proxy.pipelining
   network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

   Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

   Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
   Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
   Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like “30″. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

I found this excellent tip in Leonid’s blog and he found it in Ovid’s LiveJournal. I am posting it here as well because I think that the more people find out about it, more people will use firefox.

And if you use Firefox, here’s a tip that many don’t seem to know about: keywords.

Let’s say that you’re constantly searching images.google.com. Go there and type a search for “daisies” and bookmark the resulting page. Then, goto Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks and select the bookmark you just saved. Ricght-click the bookmark and select Properties (or Edit -> Properties from the Manage Bookmarks menu). In the resulting dialog box, you can edit Name, Location, Keyword and Description. The Location will look something like this:

[code]http://images.google.com/images?q=daisies&btnG=Search+Images[/code]

In that URL, find the word you searched for (daisies, in this case) and replace it with %s:

[code]http://images.google.com/images?q=%s&&btnG=Search+Images[/code]

Then, type images in the keyword field. Click OK.

When you’re back at the browser, you can now just type images followed by what you want to search for and you’ll go straight to the google images page for that. Try it with images puppies, for example. This technique will work for just about any site where you can search.