Senseis Search Plugin For Firefox
Plugin available at http://www.lyrically.net/sensei.
Alternatively you may use the Keyword feature in Mozilla's browsers to add search features to the location bar. This solution gives a quick way to search Sensei's without using screen real-estate or requiring you to switch search engines between searches. (Nor installing potensially dangerous extensions from non-mozilla sites, though this one is probably safe)
Go to any Sensei's page and bookmark it under f.ex the "Quick Search" folder. Edit the bookmark by left-clicking it in the menu and change the following fields:
- Name: Sensei's Library: Quick Search
- Location:
http://senseis.xmp.net/?%s
- Keyword: sen
Now any input to the location bar that starts with "sen " will automatically go to the bookmarked URL with "%s" replaced with the term following "sen ". This allows you quick access to terms and pages at sites like Wikipedia, Senseis's and Urban Dictionary.
See http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html for more information.
As an alternative to the alternative you can write a Firefox search plugin that uses google for your ends (although the accuracy of this is dependant on how well the site is indexed).
Something like this.
- Go to your Firefox profile directory (~/.mozilla/firefox/<random-string>/ on Unix boxes, (anyone got a clue for Windows machines, not got one handy)).
- Find the searchplugins subdirectory ~/.mozilla/firefox/<random-string>/searchplugins/
- Edit a new file called 'senseis.xml' and write something like this in it:
<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/" xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">: <os:ShortName>Sensei's Library</os:ShortName> <os:!Description>Sensei's Library</os:Description> <os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding> <os:Image width="16" height="16">data:image/x-icon;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABmJLR0QA/wD/AP+gvaeTAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYAAAAB3RJTUUH1gkZCiQRvn1rdAAAAG5JREFUOMvVU0EOgCAMaw3//3I96HAoZpucbEIyyFbaEihJAAASOMsKNiximaBZQbPhcLnjsH8o8A22/HlKwR1KBjoQ8MVCGKIkzFrLFvyNmeFO0EMMmmcWmxUkP2XQLeiYKL8IFSsPFBj7bz/TDnx3OBwqx5Y4AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC</os:Image> <SearchForm>http://senseis.xmp.net/</SearchForm> <Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q={searchTerms}&btnG=Google+Search&as_sitesearch=senseis.xmp.net"> </Url> </SearchPlugin>
Restart firefox and it should work
(p.s. Can someone fix the display of that block of XML or at least upload it to a file somewhere? I've no idea how to persuade this wiki to enclose it in <pre> tags).