Re: Message-ID search plugin for Firefox and IE7
- From: Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:40:37 +0100
On 2008-08-06, »Q« <boxcars@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:18:37 +0100
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-08-06, Troy Piggins <usenet-0808@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
* G Morgan wrote :
Troy Piggins wrote:
Just select it as your search engine in the search toolbar, paste
a Message-ID without the enclosing <> and off you go. Hopefully
someone finds it useful.
I already had one made with Opera's "create search" feature.
Great minds think alike. :-)
Here is the search in Opera:
http://howardk.freenix.org/msgid.cgi?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%s
:) Thanks mate.
... and the corresponding one using Google is:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=%s
Opera's 'create search' tool is excellent; I can easily understand
why someone felt Firefox needed to imitate that feature too ;)). I
wonder if Ask.com will ever add a 'keyword' for searching for usenet
articles?
Do Opera's creates searches use the search bar or do they work as
keyword searches in the address bar? The two above would work as
keyword searches in Firefox. (In fact I posted exactly those two in an
earlier thread).
The default search engine for the "Search bar" is user-configurable in
Opera - and so, seperately, is the "Speed dial search engine". (My own
arrangement is for the search bar to be 'find in page' and the speed-dial
search to be Ask.com; mainly I use the address bar with a keyword to
determine which search-engine I want for each occasion - and I can combine
Opera's keyword and eg Ask.com's in one go - eg for me
t convert 10 Euros to US Dollars
(t being my Opera keyword for Ask.com - in memory of Teoma, originator of
the search engine now used by Ask.com) brings up an Ask.com search with
that conversion, by XE.com , as the first result.
I don't want to start any browser warfare, but I am curious about when
keyword searches appeared in Opera and Mozilla. I know they've been
in Mozilla since at least 1.0, but I don't know if they go back further
than that.
The current GUI tool for editing/managing search engines appeared in the
changelog for Opera 9 (middle of 2006), but manual editing of the config
files had been possible (and documented) for a long time before then -
from memory at least as far back as somewhere in Opera 7.x and there has
been a steady incremental improvement since then. Even before then, you
could have any search engine you liked as a bookmark and put it in a
toolbar or a 'panel', of course. (Google Groups Advanced search has been
in my Personal Bar for years).
I only keep Firefox on my system because uninstalling it 'breaks' stuff in
Mandriva and I prefer to find myself looking at something useful in
Firefox rather than getting an error message and having to track down
which config file or whatever to edit this time. How many browsers do I
need? I have five installed, and that seems to meet most eventuallities!
Wherever useful ideas come from, I welcome them - and as far as web
browsers are concerned, competition seems to be working very well as a
goad to innovation and improvement all round. If only web designers were
as technically profficient as web browser developers ...
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