BSU Search Plugin for Firefox

[Ashok Gelal]

Hey folks!
I've just created a small BSU Search Plugin for Firefox. If you want to search anything inside boisestate.edu website, you don't need to open the site. Just search right inside from the Firefox search box. Look at the screenshot below. I've attached bsu.xml file. Put it inside /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/searchplugins /usr/share/ubufox/searchplugins directory and you should be ready to go. It works well in Windows too, just copy the file into C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins.

Right now I'm not attaching the embeded URI encoded BSU logo as shown in the screenshot. I will contact Printing and Graphic Services to ask if I can embed logo into the file.

Embedding a customize search engine such as this can be one of the attractive features of BroncOS. We can include search plugins for searching books/journals/publications from Albertsons Library's website too, for an example.

[Roger Goerrich]

That is awesome... I love it...

[Ryan]

I should look into portableapps, once I get another larger USB drive, I have two right now, one stores Eeebuntu for re-installations I have to complete on my Eee, The other stores all my work for school and backups for a few scripts and other junk I feel like I need to carry. It would be nice to have a few things with me while on the go.

[Ashok Gelal]

Do you also use portableapps? I'm working as a Computer Lab Assistant at the Albertsons Library and they don't have Firefox installed in many computers. portableapps has been very useful. I worked and tested this plugin using portable Firefox while I had nothing to do sitting on the chair of lab assistant ;-). Those who want to carry a whole bunch of applications in their thumb drive: http://portableapps.com/download

[Trent Cutler]

Awesome!

For anyone using portableapps, its under Portableapps FirefoxPortable data profile searchplugins.