Second Life search addons for Firefox

I read a blog post by Torley about quicksearch bookmarks and I thought... Wouldn't it be cool if Second Life could have its own search tool in Firefox just like google and all the others?

So I made some ;0 http://slinked.net/sl/

I'm open to requests for other SL sites as well. It only requires that the site have a search form.

If you want a pretty icon for them please email a 16x16 png image to [email]baba@slinked.net[/email]

A preview image.. If I can get some icons for the rest, they will all be nice

It would be even better if the search addon worked in Opera. Then I would actually use it.

I do have the LSL wiki set up to work in Opera's search thingie, it's just a Google site specific search, taken from the source for the Google LSL wiki search in the LSL wiki.

What would be even more useful would be something that would search all the SL related sites of one's choice at once.

Will these work in Firefox beta 2?

Probably.. the format is simple and they would have to be trying to break it to make it not work ;0

A Second Life Super Search might be dificult with each site returning data in a different format. ;0

I'll look into Opera

Opera is not quite as easy to add to.. It requires you edit your search.ini file ;0

http://www.schrode.net/opera/search/search_ini.html

Do you really like Opera? Sorry to be a butt, but that's weird to me. It displays a lot of pages incorrectly, and has a bug with fonts when one has more than 800 fonts installed on their system--it will show everything in the wrong font, and the only answer they have to the problem is, and I quote, "Uninstall some fonts". The only redeeming feature of Opera is the way it zooms into pages. It doesn't even use a lot of the standard shortcut keys (ctrl+enter for .com shift+enter for .net, etc). Unless they've done some major renovations on their browser over the past 5 months, I don't understand why anyone would prefer Opera.

Come on, at least respond to the OP ;0

Sorry about that--

Thanks for making these. It's very cool.

Woot thanks! ;0 (EGO BOOST)

Could you make it search the F1 help? This might help one to be able to point people to the right spot in the help in the SL client.

Get me the URL? I have changed mine and I don't have it ;0

http://secondlife.com/app/help/index.html

There is no search function in the help??

Try Opera Tools menu, Preferences, Search tab, if you are in the mood to pursue this.

To add the LSL wiki search into Opera search things I used that to add this:

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=%s&as_sitesearch=secondlife.com﷐2Fbadgeo

with a keyword of "l". That adds an LSL wiki search to the drop down list of search engines that includes google, answers.com, etc. and it allows one to search the wiki from the address bar by typing, for example, "l llSay" .

I'll get right on it in the morning

Set up google site search for it! http://slinked.net/sl/

Basic structure is this... does a site search for inworld help and sets a domain so you can search the web or in world help with a radio button.. ;0

www.google.com/search?domains=secondlife.com%2Fapp%2Fhelp&q=%SEARCH TERM%sitesearch=secondlife.com%2Fapp%2Fhelp

Utterly awesome, Baba - thank you so much for doing these.

BabaYama+++

The newest Image Zoom extension for Firefox can do this too - images and text at the same time.

Baba, I'll add these to my search bar - thanks!

Please tell your friends ;0 hahaahahahahhaahahah!#$%W


But really, I would like to see some pretty Icons for them. so if anyone is inclined to make some tiny 16x16 representations of a particular service ;0 PNG format!

Also, if you would like to see another site's search added to the list ;0 Let me know

If anyone else is interested, I created a FireFox plugin for the Second411 search service.

It works great to search for things when you aren't able to actually be in SL:

Second411 FireFox Search Plugin

Thanks for making all of these Baba.

Hal9k Andalso - http://www.second411.com

Wow very nice add on. I wonder if it´s too difficult to make a Location or SLurl search, type the Sim and it returns in the SLurl locator yes?

Have you seen: http://slurl.com/build.php

To "make" a SLurl from a Sim name you just put it's name in. Is this along the lines of what you were thinking?