Search the Ubuntu Comunity...

[gasparov]

Hi,
here you can find a few ways to add nicer searching capabilities to you browser,they are mostly for firefox

Firefox

at this moment there are 5 search plugins for firefox regarding ubuntu:

1. Ubuntuforums
2. UbuntuWiki
3. UbuntuCustomizationGuide
4. UbuntuPackages
5. UbuntuBugs

you can chose between 2 ways for installing:

Click and Add:--->suggested

most common way,you click on the name of the search plugin and it get installed automagically, you can do it here

Manual Install

put the content of the attached gzip file in the searchplugin directory of your firefox profile.The path of the firefox profile is /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.yyy/
where user is your linux user,xxxx si a random number,yyy is your profile specific name,if you haven't changed is "default".
So you have to put them in something like this "home/gas/.mozilla/firefox/23oghrrg1n.default/searchplugins/"



Opera: not tested

for opera you can use JonahRowley's tip @ UbuntuForums



Others/All: not tested

you can use ow50 tip @ Ubuntuforums


To be Done: nicer firefox search icons


have a nice Ubuntu Search

[Puptentacle]

BRILLIANT! Thanks a ton! And thanks to JonahRowley for the Opera tip.

[traherom]

Cool deal.

[Heliode]

Very good... just what I needed. Thanks!

[ow50]

On Epiphany you can use smart bookmarks.

Ubuntu Forums (this only prefills the form these days)

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/search.php?q=%s

Ubuntu Packages

http://packages.ubuntu.com/%s

[Titus A Duxass]

Very useful, thank you.

[Micro Rotors]

Now there is something I cant do without!

[gasparov]

Ubuntu Forums (this only prefills the form these days)

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/search.php?q=%s

Ubuntu Packages

http://packages.ubuntu.com/%s

Hi,
the plugin I made last year for ubuntuforums doesn't work anymore since they canched the forum so I had to change it,the search action has changed slightly
I had to change the code from this

<input name="q" user>

to this

<input name="do=process&query" user >

so for epiphany

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/search.php?do=process&query=%s

[cutOff]

Thanks a lot, it's very useful.

[az]

This is a thing that makes Ubuntu go Zoom!

Does the doc team know about this?