Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox - MDC

Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox - MDC
Lee Iverson

Lee Iverson in leei's Channel

How to create a search plugin for Mozilla and IE7.

Captured on 05 May 2010 from developer.mozilla.org

OpenSearch

This article covers features introduced in Firefox 2

Firefox 2 supports the OpenSearch description format for search plugins. Plugins that use the OpenSearch description syntax are compatible with IE 7 and Firefox. Because of this, they are the recommended format for use on the web.

Firefox also supports additional search capabilities not included in the OpenSearch description syntax, such as search suggestions and the SearchForm element. This article will focus on creating OpenSearch-compatible search plugins that support these additional Firefox-specific features.

OpenSearch description files can also be advertised as described in Autodiscovery of search plugins, and can be installed programmatically as described in Adding search engines from web pages.

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