(techie vanitie) Anyone up for creating a FreeRepublic search plugin for FireFox?

mozdev.org ^ | 1/14/06 | Marty F

[martin_fierro]

Anyone up for creating a FreeRepublic-specific search plugin for FireFox?

The plugin needn't be anything fancy -- it could basically be a shortcut for the Google "site:freerepublic.com" query, or something similar.

There's a Firefox Plugin generator here, but darned if I know how to use it.

This plugin might be useful for searching the bodies of past FR threads, not just the titles.

[bd476]

LOL, Tijeras_Slim, you are a genius.

Where can I get one of those?? :-)

[HAL9000]

I've been thinking about a customized web browser for FR. The motivation for that was to have a better way to post articles, but it could have a built-in FR search engine too.

It could be an open-source project hosted on SourceForge, based on WebKit.

[HAL9000]

test

[martin_fierro]

Firefox now has on its "Search Engine AddOns" page a link to something called "Rollyo: Roll Your Own Firefox Search Engine! Create a personal search engine that provides relevant results from a hand selected list of sites".

When used with "http://www.freerepublic.com", this Rollyo feature comes closest to what I was originally inquiring about in this thread.

It can create a search button specifically for searching FR when using the Firefox browser. Google is not the search engine used (Rollyo is), but it seems to work pretty well!