{"id":8328,"date":"2004-12-12T20:18:46","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T18:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/12\/engines-for-mozilla-firefox-search-bar\/"},"modified":"2005-10-07T04:00:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T01:00:53","slug":"engines-for-mozilla-firefox-search-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/12\/engines-for-mozilla-firefox-search-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Engines for Mozilla Firefox search bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20041212-firefox_search.gif\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>Most of you probably already know this, but I have just found out myself, so I&#8217;ll share just in case some of you missed it too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Recent versions of Mozilla Firefox have a feature called a search bar.  It is usually located to the right of the address bar.   By default, this search bar is configured to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/\">Google<\/a>.  That is, instead of going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/\">Google<\/a>, you can just type your query in that search bar, hit <code>Enter<\/code> and you will get the search results.  This is very convenient and saves a lot of time and clicking around.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you click o the small Google icon in the search bar, you will be presented with a list of other search engines, that you can use instead of the default Google option.  There is also a menu item marked &#8220;<code>Add Engines<\/code>&#8220;.  If you click on it, you will be taken to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/central.html#central-engines\">this page<\/a>, where you can find hundreds and hundreds of other engines that you can use.  Two that I have been missing the most were <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\">Google Images<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\">IMDB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check this out and you will most probably save yourselve a lot of time.\n<\/p>\n<p><b>P.S.:<\/b> On Linux, these engines are installed into some global directory, so your Firefox will need root access.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Most of you probably already know this, but I have just found out myself, so I&#8217;ll share just in case some of you missed it too&#8230; Recent versions of Mozilla Firefox have a feature called a search bar. It is usually located to the right of the address bar. By default, this search bar is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/12\/engines-for-mozilla-firefox-search-bar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Engines for Mozilla Firefox search bar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,2068,45,335,74],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-browsers","tag-google","tag-mozilla","tag-search","tag-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13455,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/07\/google-translate-tip-for-google-chrome\/","url_meta":{"origin":8328,"position":0},"title":"Google Translate tip for Google Chrome","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is something that I thought of today, played with, and found quite useful - integration of Google Translate with Google Chrome via the search engine configuration. \u00a0Of course, I know that there are addons for Google Chrome to integrate Google Translate. \u00a0Of course, I know that Google Chrome comes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/google_chrome_translate-500x298.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9052,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/07\/kde-web-shortcuts\/","url_meta":{"origin":8328,"position":1},"title":"KDE web shortcuts","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 7, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a saying in Russia, that can be translated something like this: \"Live for a century, learn for a century.\" Some people go as far as add \"And you'll die a fool.\". 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First, if you'll create yourself an account, A9 will remember you previous search queries.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12595,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/02\/custom-background-for-google-search\/","url_meta":{"origin":8328,"position":5},"title":"Custom background for Google search","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Next Web points out: Starting this afternoon, and rolling out over the next few days\u00a0Google is releasing the ability around the US and the world to upload a custom image as the background of your Google.com. 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