Browser Search Plugin

Overview

Here is a quick and dirty search plugin to add the ability to search the Paragon Wiki to the search toolbar in Firefox and Opera.

Installing in Firefox

Open up Notepad or your favorite text editor. Wordpad isn't the best item for this operation, because it insists on adding a .txt extension, while we want a .src extension on this file. Copy and paste the plugin text into your editor.

Save this file in your C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins as ParagonWiki.src. If Firefox is in a different directory, you'll have to change the filepath appropriately. Close down Firefox and restart. You'll now have a Paragon Wiki search in your search box.

Installing in Opera

Installing the search plugin in Opera is a bit more complex, as Opera's Search.ini file is less flexible and harder to manually edit. The best thing to do is to download and install Opsed.

Open up Notepad or your favorite text editor. Wordpad isn't the best item for this operation, because it insists on adding a .txt extension, while we want a .src extension on this file. Copy and paste the plugin text into your editor.

Save this file, the actual place doesn't matter, since it will only be used once and can be deleted afterwards. Open Opsed, and select the File menu. Select Import and then the first Merge user defined searches menu (why there is two, I don't know). Find the file you just saved and select it. Click Ok and the search will be added to Opera's search.ini. You can now delete the original file. Restart Opera and you'll have a Paragon Wiki search in your search box.

The Plugin

# Mozilla search plugin for Paragon Wiki PargonWiki.com
# by StarGeek
# This file is released into the public domain.
#
# Version: 0.9 (2006-03-03)
<SEARCH version="7.1"
        name="Paragon Wiki"
        description="Search on ParagonWiki.com"
        method="GET"
	action="http://paragonwiki.com/w/index.php"
	searchForm="http://paragonwiki.com/w/index.php"
        queryCharset="UTF-8"
>

<input name="search" user>
</search>

External Links

Installing Mozilla search plugins manually

Opsed - Opera Search.ini Editor