      
Installing The Search Plugin
So now everything is made, obviously it needs to be installed for it to work. It doesn't just magically appear in your browser. Now to install a plugin we need to use Javascript. Obviously you will need javascript enabled for it to be able to install. I will give you the script that installs it, you may say its very similar to Mozilla's version... but actually it is. There is only 1 way to install these plug ins. function addEngine(url, img, name, desc)
{
��� if ((typeof window.sidebar == "object") && (typeof window.sidebar.addSearchEngine == "function")) {
�� � �� window.sidebar.addSearchEngine (
�� � � � �� url,
�� � � � �� img,
�� � � � �� name,
�� � � � �� desc� � � �
�� � �� );
��� }
��� else
��� {
�� � �� alert("You need a Mozilla based browser such as firefox to use this.");
��� }
}
Now this code needs to go in script tags on a page. Like this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
��� <head>
�� � �� <title>Firefox Search Plugins :: Search TechTuts, Pixel2Life, TutorialFX and more...</title>
�� � � �� <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
�� � �� <script type="text/javascript">
�� � � � �� function addEngine(url, img, name, desc) {
�� � � � � � �� if ((typeof window.sidebar == "object") && (typeof window.sidebar.addSearchEngine == "function")) {
�� � � � � � � � �� window.sidebar.addSearchEngine (
�� � � � � � � � � � �� url,
�� � � � � � � � � � �� img,
�� � � � � � � � � � �� name,
�� � � � � � � � � � �� desc� � � �
�� � � � � � � � �� );
�� � � � � � �� }
�� � � � � � �� else
�� � � � � � �� {
�� � � � � � � � �� alert("You need a Mozilla based browser such as firefox to use this.");
�� � � � � � �� }
�� � � � �� }
�� � �� </script>
��� </head>
<body>
<br />
<a href="#"
onclick="addEngine('http://pluginr.com/Search_Plugins/Plugins/p2lforum.src',
'http://www.pixel2life.com/favicon.ico', 'Pixel2Life Forum', 'Search
Pixel2Life.com Forum'); return false;">Install Now</a>� �
<br /><br />
</body>
</html>
If you open a new file, save as install.html and put the above code inside it. Press install now and the plugin will install for you. All you need to do, is edit the onclick="" on the link. Pretty straight forward.. it goes like: addEngine(url to src, icon, name, description); As simple as that... Thanks For Reading And that's it. Thank you very much for reading and hopefully this tutorial was easier to understand than Mozilla's guide. � � If you ever need help just post on the Forums where someone will be willing to help.
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