Baseball Hacks

Add Baseball Searches to Firefox

Add a few baseball web sites to the default list of search engines and search instantly for information on baseball players.

Do you use Firefox? Do you like to look up information about baseball players? Start searching the easy way by adding a few baseball web sites to the Firefox search dialog box. As shown in Figure 1-13, you can pick different search engines to use in the dialog box. Even cooler, you can add other search engines to the list. This hack shows you how to add some baseball-specific search engines to the search bar.

Figure 1-13. Search bar search engine selection in Firefox

Adding Search Engines to Firefox

You can find a list of search engine plug-ins at http://mycroft.mozdev.org. This web site lets you search for different search engine plug-ins. Searching for “baseball” in the “Find search plugins” section of the site produces results like the ones shown in Figure 1-14. If you click on one of the links shown, a dialog box will appear asking whether you want to add that particular search engine to the search bar. If you click OK, the search engine will be added to the list in Firefox.

Figure 1-14. Baseball search engines

After adding the search engines you want, they will appear in the choices in the search bar, as shown in Figure 1-15 ...