While it’s pretty distressing not to have the ‘in page’ function in the Firefox 1.0 search bar I find it hard to express my joy at the fact that I can now search wikipedia as easily as I can Google :O)
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While it’s pretty distressing not to have the ‘in page’ function in the Firefox 1.0 search bar I find it hard to express my joy at the fact that I can now search wikipedia as easily as I can Google :O)
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And the Creative Commons search feature as well – to find stuff that doesn’t require weeks of copyright clearance. This would have been a real asset for one of the few “courses” that I developed a while back.
Lordy, thanks for the heads up, that’s fan-bloody-tastic!
Hi James, you might also find Firefox keywords handy. For Wikipedia, I’m using a bookmark to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go“ with keyword=wp. This way I can type “wp Charles Saatchi” in the address bar, and it takes me to Charles Saatchi. It substitutes the words following the keyword for the “%s”. As for find in page, have you tried the “Find as you type” function under Prefs->Advanced->Accessibility?
Will give it a shot… it just gets better :O)
James, are you aware of the find-as-you-type feature? I like this better than a separate box (though in Firefox 1.0 there is a “find in page” search bar that pops up with control-f). Type /someword and it will start highlighting finds starting with the first letter. Once you find what you’re looking for, pressing finds the next instance.
Oops, WordPress stripped the word “Enter” which I had enclosed in HTML-type braces < > so pressing Enter finds the next instance.
How did you get Wikipedia in your search bar?
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=add firefox search&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official