Steve Jenkins wrote: > On 6/7/06, Dave Schmidt wrote: >> I updated my version of Firefox to the latest and in doing so it deleted >> the Digikey search plugin that a fellow pic-lister wrote. >> It was very useful. >> >> Anyone still have the Digikey plugin they can send my way? > > http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=digikey&sherlock=yes&opensearch=&submitform=Search Alternatively you can use a bookmark. Create a bookmark with the following properties (all without quotes): - Name: Anything you want, e.g. "Digikey". (I have all these search bookmarks in a separate bookmark folder, for one because they are not really meant for direct use, and also because then they are all together and I don't have to mark each one individually as a search bookmark.) - Location: "http://www.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?KeywordSearch&site=US&keywords=%s" (the '%s' gets replaced with the search string that follows the keyword when you use it). - Keyword: Anything you want, preferably short and easy to remember, e.g. "dig". Whatever follows the keyword in the location bar gets expanded into the %s in the location of the bookmark. - Description: Only required if you think you can't remember what it is meant to do :) Then type something like "dig pic16lf88" in the /location/ field of Firefox (/not/ the search bar!). The 'dig' part is the letter combination you chose as keyword, followed by the search terms. The search terms (anything that follows the keyword) gets expanded into the '%s' part of the location, and the resulting URL is loaded. Needless to say that this can be used for any search engine that has a way to trigger a search by URL. Some examples of suitable location settings: Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s Google News: http://news.google.com/news?btnG=Search+News&q=%s Wikipedia (En) Item: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s Wikipedia (En) Content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?fulltext=fulltext&search=%s Fedex Tracking: http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?tracknumbers=%s CVSNT Manual: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.cvsnt.org%2Fmanual%2Fhtml%2F+%s This can also be used for other purposes, not only search engines. For example, the location "http://www.%s.com.br" with a keyword of "br" transforms "br estadao" into "http://www.estadao.com.br". Have fun! Gerhard -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist