Yahoo! Hacks

Customize the Firefox Quick Search Box

Though Yahoo! Web Search is a default option in the Firefox search box, with some quick coding you can add many other Yahoo! Search types.

If you use the Firefox web browser (available at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox), you’re probably already aware of the useful search box in the upper-right corner. From any page, at any time, you can simply type a query into the box and press Enter to bring the search page up in the browser. Though Google is the default search engine, you can click the arrow to choose another search engine, as shown in Figure 1-43.

Figure 1-43. Firefox search box options

Yahoo! Web Search is a default option, and once you choose Yahoo! from the drop-down list, it will stay your top choice until you change it again.

The nice thing about this list of potential search engines is that you can add any search engine of your choice. In fact, Firefox offers an Add Engines…option that takes you to a page with more search choices you can install with a few clicks. The New Search Engines section contains a page (http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/yahoo.html) full of over 30 different Yahoo!-related searches you can add to the Firefox search box. These are searches that others have found useful and decided to share with the larger Mozilla community (Mozilla is the technology behind Firefox). The specialty Yahoo! searches include everything ...