Comments on: Friday Hack: Search Keys extension for Firefox and Yahoo! Search

By: dean

dean — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:14:37 +0000

have yahoo mail but yahoo is not on my desktop

By: webcam

webcam — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:21:18 +0000

Hey

I agree with what you’re saying. Thanks for sharing the info with us.

By: Marc Abramowitz

Marc Abramowitz — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:07:29 +0000

The Search Keys maintainer has released version 0.6, which has my additions, so you don't have to mess around with jar files now. Get it at http://www.squarefree.com/extensions/search-keys/

By: Satish

Satish — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:26:39 +0000

This extension is awesome! It works great with my Firefox browser. I am using the latest release version of Firefox:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
(Copy/paste from Help->About)

By: Stuart Watson

Stuart Watson — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:37:40 +0000

I’m using Firefox 1.0/Powerbook G4. I’m trying to use the “Alt” key to get the result to open in a new tab rather then going through the current tab. It does not seem to be working. I’m trying it while also holding down the “FN” key and “Shift” key b/c the Powerbook keyboard does not have a stand-alone “Alt” key. No luck.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Stuart

By: Jerry Welch

Jerry Welch — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:35:59 +0000

MySearch Ideas
1 – set up MySearch as a option that can be added to the Nav bar search box (get it added to the list of search engines found here – http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/yahoo.html)
2 – set up an extension that adds the bookmarklet function to the right-click context menu.

The more I look at it, the more I think that a full fledged Y!Search Extension might be worth exploring. Perhaps something like the Context Search extension, but offering the full range of Y!Search options when you highlite a word in a page.

By: Marc Abramowitz

Marc Abramowitz — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 07:01:39 +0000

On my machine (Windows 2000 with Firefox 1.0 PR), the file is at C:\Documents and Settings\Marc\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\8louy9l2.default\extensions\{003dc6ae-2505-4639-be60-9132ac0d8814}\chrome

Adjust accordingly for your setup.

Note that the “Application Data” file is typically hidden in Windows by default.

MySearch – interesting – what did you have in mind?

By the way, I neglected to mention that this hack also works for many Yahoo Searches, including Image Search, Local, Products, News, and even Yahoo Personals.

Hopefully, we can put up a proper .xpi file after Firefox 1.0 is final and we’re confident that they’re not going to change their extension manager again.

By: Jerry Welch

Jerry Welch — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:49:27 +0000

Fantastic! I’m really excited to see Yahoo! specific extensions starting to show up for Firefox. Now, how about an extension for MySearch?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:18:44 +0000

where is the profiles extensions folder?