Do you mean the one I wrote? :-)

-marc

On 6/9/06, Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
>
> Steve Jenkins wrote:
>
> > On 6/7/06, Dave Schmidt <techsavy@dschmidt.com> 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
>
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