WarcraftRealms.com search plugin for Firefox 2.0+

Narlash · Post by **Narlash** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:05 am

I coded up a search extension for Firefox for the WarcraftRealms.com users who, just like me, frequently look up player / guild names daily and need it done quickly.

Now you can search player or guild names from any site, just like with Thottbot's search addon they have on their site. It works just the same, but for WarcraftRealms.com. This extension adds a search engine field to the very top right corner of your Firefox browser.

This is not any spyware riddled search bar installed separably, it's OpenSearch code and it is just like those default search engines you already have installed up there.

I asked Rollie about the idea and he said someone had already done it way back but I couldn't find it and neither could he, so I'm putting this thread here with a link in it for you to install it easily.

No cookies, no applications, no more than this one .xml file gets installed on your computer via your Firefox browser.

I found out that this only works on Firefox browsers 2.0+, I still don't know if this might work on Internet Explorer 7 as well, please feel free to try it on there and post a reply if it worked or not. If you have any trouble, let me know. This is my first attempt at .xml coding, but I haven't seen any bugs so far, it was advanced to me but pretty simple for the experienced .xml coder

Have fun!

Install it here

Hybuir · Post by **Hybuir** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:16 am

This might help you out to what Rollie was talking about.
http://www.warcraftrealms.com/forum/vie ... php?t=2929

But, hey, 2 good ideas. Maybe you can take a look and maybe there's something that could be improved

Narlash · Post by **Narlash** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:21 am

Oh, the greasemonkey one is completely different

That's just for the official wow forums, this one is for the search field up top of your browser next to the address bar

So it works from any site, it's actually attached physically in your browser.

Narlash · Post by **Narlash** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:23 am

*Takes a screenshot of the thingie*
Gonna put this nifty picture up so people get what i'm actually going on about.

Narlash · Post by **Narlash** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:30 am

Hah! Now my addon has a picture too!

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:36 am

Sweet! I'm definitely getting this

Narlash · Post by **Narlash** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:18 am

Glad you like it

Is it working out for ya?

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:33 pm

Yep, it works great. Thanks man

Narlash · Post by **Narlash** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:08 pm

Formatted my computer, did a quick search of my own post, and happy to report the link and the search feature of this extension still works!

+Bonus Bump+

Post by **Rollie** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:52 am

Stickied =)

Tharanor · Post by **Tharanor** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:39 am

Hmm.. this stickie is from 2008 - but i've a question about this plugin:

Works this plugin on the newest Firefox releases up to 3.x?

Post by **Rollie** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:52 am

No idea =x