Folks.
Anybody knows why the Search Engine Selection feature was changed. At the
bottom of the list there was a link to mycroft.mozdev.org. Is it to find
elsewhere n the new selection feature or is it necessary to visit the mycroft
page?

Regards
Erik

Erik Lennartsson wrote:
>
> Folks.
> Anybody knows why the Search Engine Selection feature was changed. At
> the bottom of the list there was a link to mycroft.mozdev.org. Is it to
> find elsewhere n the new selection feature or is it necessary to visit
> the mycroft page?
>
> Regards Erik
>
>


Are you speaking of Firefox 2.0.0.12 or the Firefox 3 beta?

Firefox 2.0.0.12 didn't change the search engine selection feature here

Beta issues - it is a BETA - it may or may not have the same features
when released - it may be a test of a new feature or it may be pointed
to somewhere else to prevent the beta from overloading a site

"Moz Champion (Dan)" <moz.champion@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:CNOdnV_1x9ZQNWfanZ2dnUVZ_ualnZ2d@mozilla.org. ..
> Erik Lennartsson wrote:
>>
>> Folks.
>> Anybody knows why the Search Engine Selection feature was changed. At
>> the bottom of the list there was a link to mycroft.mozdev.org. Is it to
>> find elsewhere n the new selection feature or is it necessary to visit
>> the mycroft page?
>>
>> Regards Erik
>
> Are you speaking of Firefox 2.0.0.12 or the Firefox 3 beta?
>
> Firefox 2.0.0.12 didn't change the search engine selection feature here
>
> Beta issues - it is a BETA - it may or may not have the same features
> when released - it may be a test of a new feature or it may be pointed
> to somewhere else to prevent the beta from overloading a site

Technically you may be correct, but the people of AMO did their
magic redirects and
https://en-US.add-ons.mozilla.com/en...earch-engines/
gets redirected to
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:4
instead of this, which looks like if it works so should the above
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...:all?sort=name

in other words they don't point to mycroft which had some logic to
it's arrangement and had I'm sure a lot more sort engines.

Truth is you really don't need them, if you can find a search text box
for the sort you want, fill in the other options that apply, if any,
and then use the "Add to Search Bar" extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3682/
it also allow you to create a keyword search, but then so does
Firefox at least in version 3, if not in vesion 2.

the Mycroft project is listed as a search engine, I didn't make this up look...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ycroft&cat=all

The Mycroft project can be found at
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html
it just probably isn't pointed to by mozilla anymore.


--
HTH,
David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

On 08/04/08 04:31, David McRitchie wrote:
> "Moz Champion (Dan)" <moz.champion@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:CNOdnV_1x9ZQNWfanZ2dnUVZ_ualnZ2d@mozilla.org. ..
>> Erik Lennartsson wrote:
>>>
>>> Folks.
>>> Anybody knows why the Search Engine Selection feature was changed. At
>>> the bottom of the list there was a link to mycroft.mozdev.org. Is it
>>> to find elsewhere n the new selection feature or is it necessary to
>>> visit the mycroft page?
>>>
>>> Regards Erik
>>
>> Are you speaking of Firefox 2.0.0.12 or the Firefox 3 beta?
>>
>> Firefox 2.0.0.12 didn't change the search engine selection feature here
>>
>> Beta issues - it is a BETA - it may or may not have the same features
>> when released - it may be a test of a new feature or it may be pointed
>> to somewhere else to prevent the beta from overloading a site
>
> Technically you may be correct, but the people of AMO did their
> magic redirects and
> https://en-US.add-ons.mozilla.com/en...earch-engines/
> gets redirected to
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:4
> instead of this, which looks like if it works so should the above
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...:all?sort=name
>
> in other words they don't point to mycroft which had some logic to
> it's arrangement and had I'm sure a lot more sort engines.
>
> Truth is you really don't need them, if you can find a search text box
> for the sort you want, fill in the other options that apply, if any,
> and then use the "Add to Search Bar" extension
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3682/
> it also allow you to create a keyword search, but then so does
> Firefox at least in version 3, if not in vesion 2.
>
> the Mycroft project is listed as a search engine, I didn't make this up
> look...
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ycroft&cat=all
> The Mycroft project can be found at
> http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html
> it just probably isn't pointed to by mozilla anymore.
>

Also, on Fx2, you can reorder your search engines by selecting "Manage
Search Engines" at the very bottom of the list. (Maybe Mycroft moved up
the list, or maybe it stayed put but you [Erik] added other engines
below it?)

I have Mycroft among my search engines, but that's because I explicitly
added it some time ago from the Mycroft page -- probably one of those
linked above, or not far from them.

Best regards,
Tony.
--
In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one
of the risks he takes.
-- Adlai Stevenson

"Tony Mechelynck"
> I have Mycroft among my search engines, but that's because I explicitly
> added it some time ago from the Mycroft page -- probably one of those
> linked above, or not far from them.

I have that not sure where I actually got it from but it is not quite
the same as what they offer now. The have the "Open Search" form
you can get it at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/install.html
do a search on mozdev, then
click on the link for "Mycroft Project - All"
or on what it points to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/jsreq.html
and you will have installed the "Mycroft Project - Open Search" engine.

Nice thing about the Mycroft search engine either old or new is that
it points to the advanced search page if you leave the form blank
and hit enter.

--
HTH,
David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

On 08/04/08 05:51, David McRitchie wrote:
> "Tony Mechelynck"
>> I have Mycroft among my search engines, but that's because I
>> explicitly added it some time ago from the Mycroft page -- probably
>> one of those linked above, or not far from them.
>
> I have that not sure where I actually got it from but it is not quite
> the same as what they offer now. The have the "Open Search" form
> you can get it at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/install.html
> do a search on mozdev, then
> click on the link for "Mycroft Project - All"
> or on what it points to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/jsreq.html
> and you will have installed the "Mycroft Project - Open Search" engine.
>
> Nice thing about the Mycroft search engine either old or new is that
> it points to the advanced search page if you leave the form blank
> and hit enter.
>

To get the Sherlock version, try replacing "firefox" by "seamonkey" in
the amo URL -- I don't know if it'll work, but it ought to -- SeaMonkey
doesn't support OpenSearch.

Best regards,
Tony.
--
If your life is a hard drive,
Christ can be your backup.

"Tony Mechelynck" <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote in message news:gtudnSu9-fXtcmfanZ2dnUVZ_u3inZ2d@mozilla.org...
> On 08/04/08 05:51, David McRitchie wrote:
>> "Tony Mechelynck"
>>> I have Mycroft among my search engines, but that's because I
>>> explicitly added it some time ago from the Mycroft page -- probably
>>> one of those linked above, or not far from them.
>>
>> I have that not sure where I actually got it from but it is not quite
>> the same as what they offer now. The have the "Open Search" form
>> you can get it at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/install.html
>> do a search on mozdev, then
>> click on the link for "Mycroft Project - All"
>> or on what it points to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/jsreq.html
>> and you will have installed the "Mycroft Project - Open Search" engine.
>>
>> Nice thing about the Mycroft search engine either old or new is that
>> it points to the advanced search page if you leave the form blank
>> and hit enter.
>>
>
> To get the Sherlock version, try replacing "firefox" by "seamonkey" in
> the amo URL -- I don't know if it'll work, but it ought to -- SeaMonkey
> doesn't support OpenSearch.

Learn something new everyday.
The link with jsreq.html must be taking parameters because it is
the same link for Sherlock as it was for Open Source, so might
not even be for the a particular search engine.

So use this link if on SeaMonkey.
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.h...h&sherlock=yes

then click on
# Internet - Mozilla
Mycroft Project - Sherlock <----

The above link was obtained from
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/install.html
with Sherlock check marked)

(Sherlock is compatible with Mozilla-based browsers.
Opensearch is compatible with Firefox 2 [/Firefox 3] and Internet Explorer 7)

Hi Moz and the rest of you guys.

Sorry of being late in responding.

I teach people how to use Firefox (ver. 2). The in-built seach engine feature
is one of the benefits I teach people to use. In just the previsous version
of Firefox you where directed to a search engine page with a list of us-based
search engines, but at the bottom of that list there was a link to mycroft.mozdev.org.
The link line is now gone as we are directed to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:4.

I know that mycroft.mozdef can be added on the search list but to make use
of it require that you know what to search for. The previous mycroft link
pointed to a page that offer the possibillity to country specific lists,
for people to scan trough looking for something of interest.

I'm sure that many of us found mycroft because there was a visible link to
it. When hundreds and hundreds of search engines are listed it'll, as the
case with the many add-ons, be more and more difficult to find someting of
value.

There are plenty of space to list this quite special page. I think that the
mycroft team should syndicate the page offering pepole to subscribe and thus
keep an eye on newly added search addons.

Best regards
Erik




MC> Erik Lennartsson wrote:
MC>
>> Folks.
>> Anybody knows why the Search Engine Selection feature was changed. At
>> the bottom of the list there was a link to mycroft.mozdev.org. Is it
>> to
>> find elsewhere n the new selection feature or is it necessary to
>> visit
>> the mycroft page?
>> Regards Erik
>>
MC> Are you speaking of Firefox 2.0.0.12 or the Firefox 3 beta?
MC>
MC> Firefox 2.0.0.12 didn't change the search engine selection feature
MC> here
MC>
MC> Beta issues - it is a BETA - it may or may not have the same
MC> features when released - it may be a test of a new feature or it may
MC> be pointed to somewhere else to prevent the beta from overloading a
MC> site
MC>