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Hi, Sorry if I didn't add this comment correctly. Anyways... I feel that the FF search engine is very versatile, it can do almost anything though extensability, however, one thing it still fails to do... be able to do a "Search this site" easily. Know what I mean? Like you want to search ALL of the mozilla.com site (and you might be on "mozill.com/help/faq" or such, not the root page)... you can go to google and do such an "advanced" search (have to navigate there unless its in your bookmarks, which is tedious as well) by copying the url and pasting and editing it in the appropriate field (I forget if editing it is necessary). OR you can just install the googlebar extension (or some other bloated toolbar) and EASILY do a "search for word/phrase on site". Problem with that? The toolbar is bloated -- slows FF performance, hogs up toolbar space, and well... its extraneous as there is already a native search plugin in FF that does EVERYTHING else. Well, if you create a plugin to do so. The problem? You CAN'T create (well, rather several have tried and none succeeded) such a site search plugin with the native search engine. It merely doesn't support the process/code to do so. It would be a small fix, with the big effect that you no-longer need to download a toolbar (such as googlebar... which only searches google mind you) to do a site search, or to navigate to google's advanced search to do it (and copy/paste of url)... Rather it would be simple... just download a new plugin that someone could then create to do a site search with google or yahoo... etc (whichever search engines support site searches that is). Now, it is true that you can manually type "site search: (type.url.here.) (type-keywords-here) into the native search plugin, but who wants to do that? Its just a little code touch up that is necessary in my opinion for such an added convenience. Then download some extensions that enhance the NATIVE search engine, and voila! One other suggestion... have the option of searching your bookmarks/history/places/etc with the search engine, or from the urlbar (though there is an extension that can already do that from the urlbar). Later and thanks. | Hi, Sorry if I didn't add this comment correctly. Anyways... I feel that the FF search engine is very versatile, it can do almost anything though extensability, however, one thing it still fails to do... be able to do a "Search this site" easily. Know what I mean? Like you want to search ALL of the mozilla.com site (and you might be on "mozill.com/help/faq" or such, not the root page)... you can go to google and do such an "advanced" search (have to navigate there unless its in your bookmarks, which is tedious as well) by copying the url and pasting and editing it in the appropriate field (I forget if editing it is necessary). OR you can just install the googlebar extension (or some other bloated toolbar) and EASILY do a "search for word/phrase on site". Problem with that? The toolbar is bloated -- slows FF performance, hogs up toolbar space, and well... its extraneous as there is already a native search plugin in FF that does EVERYTHING else. Well, if you create a plugin to do so. The problem? You CAN'T create (well, rather several have tried and none succeeded) such a site search plugin with the native search engine. It merely doesn't support the process/code to do so. It would be a small fix, with the big effect that you no-longer need to download a toolbar (such as googlebar... which only searches google mind you) to do a site search, or to navigate to google's advanced search to do it (and copy/paste of url)... Rather it would be simple... just download a new plugin that someone could then create to do a site search with google or yahoo... etc (whichever search engines support site searches that is). Now, it is true that you can manually type "site search: (type.url.here.) (type-keywords-here) into the native search plugin, but who wants to do that? Its just a little code touch up that is necessary in my opinion for such an added convenience. Then download some extensions that enhance the NATIVE search engine, and voila! One other suggestion... have the option of searching your bookmarks/history/places/etc with the search engine, or from the urlbar (though there is an extension that can already do that from the urlbar). Later and thanks. | ||
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If I have understood you correctly, you try to limit your google search on a certain site. This is simply done by entering the search text "site:mozilla.org myKeyword1 myKeyword2". This is not a feature of firefox but google (and can be studied on google's help pages). I don't think that a search technique highly customized for a single search engine like google makes sense. Users should be familiar with using their favourite search engines. | |||
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