Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

[rdanner3]

Looks great, I too struggle to search mint forum. Too bad I use chrome... Any idea about how to do this there ?

Will see what I can dig up; I use Chrome by preference over either FF or Opera. Have all three on my box. (Mint 10)

Actually like the idea of feeding Mint money for my searches, both on-site and off.

[mindhealer]

Hi, I turned a firefox bookmark into a keyword for searching the forums with the default duckduckgo search engine and it works fine.

For example, this post comes right up searching for its name.
My command: "slmf a better way"
The result page:
http://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=site%3Aforums.linuxmint.com+a%20better%20way

The address within the "slmf" (Search Linux Mint Forums) bookmark is:

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http://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=site%3Aforums.linuxmint.com+%s

I think the "t=lm" is the part that ties the search into the ad-revenue deal.

[mindhealer]

What I mentioned in my previous reply works just as well for Chromium; there is a setting for search engines in Preferences, and the one that is default is searched from the address bar, the others are searched if you type the associated keyword.