Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

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Re: Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

Post by gravelbay »

Husse wrote:This is for FF 3.0 not 3.5
I don't know how to correct for the new version
Thanks Husse. That was quick!! :)
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Re: Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

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I just tested it in Firefox 3.5.7 and it works just like it did before. I'll keep testing this to see if I can reproduce your problem.

Husse, are you also experiencing this problem?
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Post by gravelbay »

altair4 wrote:I just tested it in Firefox 3.5.7 and it works just like it did before. I'll keep testing this to see if I can reproduce your problem.

Husse, are you also experiencing this problem?
Thanks altair. Do you think this is this something that might be affected by one of my Firefox settings?
Husse

Re: Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

Post by Husse »

I still use Gloria :)
No time to make the change and Gloria works so well
I just guessed that there might be some difference between 3.0 and 3.5
gravelbay

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Post by gravelbay »

Oh well. I don't think I'll bother anymore until I get Mint 8 KDE 64 bit and all the dust settles from that transition. Perhaps it will fix itself in the process. :mrgreen:
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Post by lllazarrr »

Just a quick thanks for this awesome topic
aaronkai

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Post by aaronkai »

worked for me. very cool. thanks for solving an annoying problem.
joshN

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Post by joshN »

Posted a closely related topic here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=55780
vardomescro

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Post by vardomescro »

/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins directory doesn't exist anymore, so don't drive yourself nuts looking for it :D You should place the .gif and .src from post 8 in your ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/searchplugins directory. Restart Firefox and enjoy superior searching on the LinuxMint forums.
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Re: Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

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/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins directory doesn't exist anymore, so don't drive yourself nuts looking for it
Yes and No:
In Mint9 it's alive and well:
ls -al /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1017 2009-11-19 11:26 apple.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240 2009-11-19 11:22 apple.src
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1089 2010-04-14 15:50 debian.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 233 2010-04-14 15:40 debian.src
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1096 2009-06-22 18:14 google2.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138 2009-06-22 18:05 google2.src
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2183 2010-10-31 07:24 google.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1080 2009-05-14 12:36 mint-forums.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 199 2009-06-22 17:50 mint-forums.src
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 747 2009-04-29 15:11 ubuntu-forums.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 2009-05-30 15:43 ubuntu-forums.src
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1178 2010-04-30 09:12 wikipedia.xml
In LMDE you are correct, it does not exist.
You should place the .gif and .src from post 8 in your ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/searchplugins directory.
Unfortunately that directory doesn't exist in LMDE either so you need to create the "searchplugins" directory first and then add the gif / src.
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not sure exactly how to add this profile. Can someone assist me on this?
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Re: Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

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If you're talking about the LMDE directory you can either do it graphically through Nautilus.

Or though the terminal:

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mkdir /home/your-user-name/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/searchplugins 
Change "your-user-name" and "*default" to their appropriate values.
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Using Gnome and either terminal or GUI which ever will get it done quickest and easiest
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altair4 wrote:If you're talking about the LMDE directory you can either do it graphically through Nautilus.

Or though the terminal:

Code: Select all

mkdir /home/your-user-name/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/searchplugins 
Change "your-user-name" and "*default" to their appropriate values.

I have yet hopefully just one more question

mkdir /home/willie42/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/searchplugins but change the default to what My browser???? Sorry I am still a bit of a newby at some of this
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Re: Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

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Sorry about that. That was not stated correctly on my part.

On my system it's located at:
/home/altair/.mozilla/firefox/y957mufj.default/searchplugins
You need to change "altair" and "y957mufj" to your own values.
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Re: Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

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altair4 wrote:Sorry about that. That was not stated correctly on my part.

On my system it's located at:
/home/altair/.mozilla/firefox/y957mufj.default/searchplugins
You need to change "altair" and "y957mufj" to your own values.
Thank you once again for your assistance. :D
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Re: Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

Post by Pythzor »

markcynt wrote:Try this.

Copy the code in post # 8
<search
name="Mint Forums"
method="GET"
action="http://www.google.com/cse"
queryCharset="utf-8"
>

<input name="q" user>
<input name="cx" value="002683415331144861350%3Atsq8didf9x0"
<input name="sitesearch" value="forums.linuxmint.com">
</search>

Paste into text editor

Name it mint-forums.src

Save to desktop

Open Nautilus as root

Browse to /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins

Copy file on Desktop and paste into /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins
Done all that. Now what do I do to have it in my search box?
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Re: Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

Post by altair4 »

I even forgot I wrote this HowTo.

I've just rewritten it to reflect the changes that both Mint and Firefox have undergone since then so what I would recommend is for you to delete the file you have in /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins and start over again with my new HowTo.
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Pepe233

Re: Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

Post by Pepe233 »

Looks great, I too struggle to search mint forum. Too bad I use chrome... Any idea about how to do this there :mrgreen: ?
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Re: Searching Mint Forums - A Better Way

Post by rdanner3 »

Pepe233 wrote:Looks great, I too struggle to search mint forum. Too bad I use chrome... Any idea about how to do this there :mrgreen: ?
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.
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