Prometheus Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 I was thinking about the Firefox plugins for other sites such as google and such, along with the Gmail notifier...... what if we had an Arnies plugin where you would get IMMEDIATE notification of a new personal message, and a search function in your Firefox search box... ~P Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FJ2 - Kaye Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 An arnies plug-in that did the same stuff as the fps etc. calculator might be cool as well. I say this as someone who has no ability to make this happen myself, otherwise i'd have done it already. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gazchap Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 (edited) You can add the Arnies search engine to Firefox by right-clicking the search box on the search form and selecting "Add a Keyword for this Search". Then, you just have to type "<keyword> <search term>" into the address bar. For example, if I selected the keyword AA and I wanted to find stuff about the SL8, I'd type "aa sl8" into the address bar. //edit: Also, if you have a GMail address then set your e-mail address on here to the GMail address and download the GMail notifier. It sits in your system tray (Windows only, unfortunately) and when you receive e-mail it lights up and tells you, and gives you a sneak preview. If you turn on e-mail notification for Private Messages on here, then that'll do your immediate notification. Edited March 12, 2006 by gazchap Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jammy_Stuff Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Errm. When I do the right click thing and click Add a keyword for this search it doesn't seem to do anything. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gazchap Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 That's weird, mine doesn't now. I just upgraded to FF 1.5 though, maybe that's got something to do with it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HaVoC Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Blech, desktop bars eating my computer alive! A broswer bar would be nice, and/or a Firefox plugin, but I refuse to run sh*t like the Google desktop notifier thingy because it just kills speed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gazchap Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 A broswer bar would be nice, and/or a Firefox plugin, but I refuse to run sh*t like the Google desktop notifier thingy because it just kills speed. The GMail notifier is different to the Google Desktop program. Google Desktop kills your speed because it's almost constantly indexing the files on your computer so you can search through them. The GMail notifier literally just sits as a small icon in your system tray, and hardly takes up any resources. Most of the time it's totally idle. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jammy_Stuff Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 (edited) Any more news on the search keyword thing gazchap or have the kind folks at Mozilla broken it? [Edit: I'm working on it guys actually. Nearly worked it out] Edited March 14, 2006 by Jammy_Stuff Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jammy_Stuff Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 Hit a slight problem. To explain it, it'll use google as an example. If you look when you do a google search, you'll see that the url is something like: http://www.google.com/search?q=hello Where hello is the search term. I can't seem to find an equivalent for Arnies search. Once I have this, I'll be able to post something up that should do it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gazchap Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 It seems that the search form will only accept input via HTTP POST and not HTTP GET, which is why it's not working. That'll serve me right for not testing things before I post them. I'm guessing that Firefox detects it's a POSTed form and doesn't show the box. Maybe it didn't do that in the version I had before. *shrugs* Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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