Attention Firefox Users!

rdrake · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:09 am

I've written a quick search plugin for Firefox that allows you to search the CompSci.Ca forums from the searchbar.

You can find the link to it here. Just click on the "CompSci.Ca" link and it will automatically install for you.

Enjoy Smile

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I've failed to mention that all the default options are used.

Tony · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:10 am

source is from localhost? Confused

md · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:40 am

It's been fixed; and it seems to work decently... though the icon is a bit too big

rdrake · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:45 am

Tony wrote:

source is from localhost? Confused

Yes... cornflake pointed that out to me. It's fixed now.

[Gandalf] · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:57 pm

Quote:

Error 404 - File not Found

CyberGeek · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:59 pm

Greetings,

The Firefox plug does not work. Sorry. Sad

rdrake · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:02 pm

CyberGeek wrote:

Greetings,

The Firefox plug does not work. Sorry. Sad

Say what? Click on the link, then click on "CompSci.Ca Search". It'll pop up asking you to install, click OK and it shows up in the searchbar. You probably still see the Google search, in which case, click on the Google icon to change engines.

zylum · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:21 pm

it doesnt work for me either.. it installs fine but when i try to search for something, nothing happens.

rdrake · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:21 pm

zylum wrote:

it doesnt work for me either.. it installs fine but when i try to search for something, nothing happens.

Unfortunately compsci.ca's search script is quite slow. Please be patient.

Amailer · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:07 pm

Strange, a few hours ago that link was giving a 404 error o.O

Anyhow, how slow is it? o.O XD

rdrake · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:47 pm

The link was pointing to an incorrect location (fixed many hours ago), it then was rm'ed (my bad), and now it's up.

As for demonstrating it works, I never thought it would come to this. However, here it is.

There's nothing I can do about the speed, it's passed to compsci.ca and it lets the forum do its thing. It's not my fault phpBB is... well... not all that great.

[Gandalf] · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:04 pm

The icon is a lot better now, but I'm afraid the search hasn't been working for me either. Nothing starts loading when you type something in and hit enter, unlike in your video. Is this only for Firefox 2.0 maybe?

Nice video though, what did you use to create it? Wink

timmytheturtle · **Posted:** Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:52 am

[Gandalf] wrote:

Is this only for Firefox 2.0 maybe?

That it is. I tested it in 1.5.something and it did not work, but it is working 2.0.

md · **Posted:** Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:18 am

It works flawlessly for me using firefox 2.0, but alas that is all I have. Unfortunately the compsci.ca search is horrible... perhaps there is a way to use google's site: feature to search compsci and gte decent search results?

Tony · **Posted:** Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:06 pm

google does have 49,000 pages of compsci listed. Out of that 5000 is for wiki pages, 150 freerange, 42 blog.

a properly crafted search

Quote:

site:compsci.ca "turing tutorials" intitle:math.distance

quickly produces an exceptionally accurate result Wink

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