[Ext] Context Search 0.4.3

[BenBasson]

Context Search 0.4.3
Updated: 03/06/2008

What it does:
Changes the "Web Search for" context item into a menu containing your search plugins.


Where you can get it:
http://www.cusser.net/extensions/contex ... search.xpi

Release history:
0.4.3 - 03/06/2008
- Minor fix for Firefox 3.0 compatibility
0.4.2 - 29/03/2008
- Firefox 3.0 compatibility
- Tri-licensed
0.4.1 - 19/11/2006
- Fixed middle-click support regression
0.4 - 11/11/2006
- Better support for Firefox 2.0 tabbed browsing behaviour
- Search using text selections in textarea / text input elements
- Support for search plugins that use POST
0.3 - 18/07/2006
- Support for new search plugin format (Firefox 2.0a1 and onwards)
- Search engine order is now respected
- Menu item appears for textarea selections
- Respects tab preference "Select new tabs opened from links"
- Middle-click support (inverts tab selection behaviour)
- Encodes "+" characters (improves search engine support)
0.2 - 14/06/2004
- Compatible with 0.9
- Holding CTRL will cause the tab to load in the Foreground
- Holding Shift will open a new window
0.1 - 09/05/2004
- Original release.

[cheeaun]

Wow, this is cool!

[soccer_dude182]

Another great extension by cusser

[AnonEmoose]

Respects to Cusser..... FYI from thread http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 448#523448 there is a hack to Cusser's cool extension to open it in a new window or the same window both involve hacking the contextarea.js and substituting for

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getBrowser().addTab(searchUrl);

to either
1. same window
2. new window

just follow the directions in the aforementioned thread

[BenBasson]

I contemplated building in a pref for that, but I wasn't going to do it unless anyone requested it. Want me to do it for you, AnonEmoose?

[AnonEmoose]

yay.... real cool.... if it's not a problem....

[Luftpost]

Wow. Yet another alternative to conquery, Smartsearch.

It has the advanatage of being much easier to use for newbies.

[sasquatch]

yay.... real cool.... if it's not a problem....

This might be a good one to have for all.



Will try out once the new extension manager is working properly (probably another couple weeks).

[BenBasson]

I'll release a version with the ability to open new windows/tabs etc tomorrow, work permitting.

[AnonEmoose]

excellent

[rmjb]

Yeah this is what I used to use Conquery for. But this is better for my purposes becasue it has the icons in the menu, quick & easy to find Google or Amazon or what ever.

Another great extension Cusser. I remember you having some hard starts on the Image Toolbar and now another great extension. Maybe you could link to the resources/references you used to ramp up on extension development?

- rmjb

[frease]

Cusser, you rock! You always make such useful extensions

[GrailKnight]

Thanks a lot.
Another great extension.

Greg

[BenBasson]

Maybe you could link to the resources/references you used to ramp up on extension development?

Mostly http://www.xulplanet.com and other people's extensions. I have a history programming in C, with a bit of C++ and OPL (PSION language), so I managed to adapt to JavaScript pretty quickly. As for XUL, it's just like HTML, so using XULPlanet as a reference, it's relatively easy.

Oh yeah, I'll update this soon, I'm a bit busy right now. On the plus side, you can now get 6 of my current 8 extensions from the Extension Room and possibly Firefox Help.

[Old Bozz]

I'll release a version with the ability to open new windows/tabs etc tomorrow, work permitting.

If you can add options to open tabs in either foreground/background would also be great. Firefox opens Web Search tabs in the background.