Saturday, March 25, 2006

Firefox Search Plugin for ClicksCount NSPCC

A quick update to my post about creating a Firefox search plugin for ClicksCount.com.uk . After reading a couple of tutorials, I gave it a try, and it seems to work fine. If you'd like to use it, you can get it here:

Firefox Search Plugin for ClicksCount

And if you'd like to learn how to create Firefox search plugins, here are the tutorials I used:

Technoobogy -- How to Make a Firefox Search Plugin

Tucows Developer -- Building Firefox Search Plugins for Tucows Start Service, Part 1

The Tucows tutorial gives instructions for manually adding the plugin to the Firefox Quick Search box, and once you've done that and restarted Firefox, you'll be able to use ClicksCount to search directly from Firefox, and help NSPCC every time you search. I hope it helps, and I hope this idea catches on and other charities can benefit from searches as well.