Try This Search On

By Vaughan Chandler — Last update Jan 14, 2009 — Installed 31,570 times.

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Sep 25, 2009 10:08pm
egabrum User
FirefoxWindows

First of all, this script in GREAT! Thanks.

Here is how I think it could be improved:

1) Change Live for Bing
2) Add context seach for maps (google, bing, ask, etc...)
3) All search engines should be customizable, also the built-in ones. I want to modify those. For example, I want to add Blog Search inside the Google bracket. Or when the config of one of the built-in engines is outdated (e.g. Flixster).
4) Easy way to backup my configuration.
 
Sep 25, 2009 10:24pm
egabrum User
FirefoxWindows

Also:

5) The bar does not show on some search engines: delicious, wolframalpha, etc
6) Support for double line bar. I use A LOT of search engines...
 
Sep 26, 2009 9:27pm
Vaughan Chan... Script's Author
FirefoxX11

Hi egabrum, Thanks for all the suggestions, I'm working on them right now.

With regards to modifying the built-in engines: if you define a custom engine with the same ID as a built-in one, the custom one will override the built-in one. So you can fairly easily modify the regular engines.

As for the mutli-engines like Google and Amazon its a bit more complicated. After you define a custom engine you'll need to edit the makeBar() function in the script (around line 341) to modify the multi-engine. I'll try to make this process a bit easier since its easy to mess up the script doing this, but its unlikely you'll get a GUI for this in the next release.

Also, I'm not working on a double line bar for the next version, but you can always give the engines shorter names (even the built-in ones). I'll think about this for a future version though.

Hopefully everything else will be included in the next release, and I'll add a couple of the engines from the custom list you posted too.

Vaughan
 
Sep 26, 2009 9:29pm
Vaughan Chan... Script's Author
FirefoxX11

OK, I forgot to account for the changes I made to the script, so the makeBar() function is actually around line 325.
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