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Jul 31, 2008

Eclipse Search - now with a Firefox plugin

Sometime ago I wrote about the Eclipse Search, a Google Custom Search that I created for searching Eclipse related resources. It searches around 250 sites and presents the results with different labels like Blogs, Docs, Source etc. Today I thought of creating a Firefox Search plugin. Unlike my estimations, the task was completed in an hour or so. Gave a revamp to the search page and moved it to a new location also. Try some queries like EMF in both Google and this Eclipse Search and see the difference yourself.



BTW, in case you are interested in installing the Firefox Plugin, go to this page, and the search engine will be automatically detected:

Update: Its now detected in this page itself! If you are using Firefox 2.x + or IE 7.0 +, look at the search bar of your browser

 Just add the engine and start searching.



To uninstall the plugin, click the "Manage Search Engines" and select Eclipse Search and Delete it.



On a related note, I've implemented this as an OpenSearch plugin, which means it should work exactly the same way in IE 7 also. I didn't have access to Windows box, I hope it works fine there as well.
Posted by Prakash G.R.
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9 comments:

  1. The Eclipse Bugzilla and Wiki also both contribute OpenSearch facilities; if you visit any page in either Bugzilla or EclipseWiki, the Firefox search bar detects them and you can add them just like this one. Only difference is that they don't have a nice icon like yours ;-)
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  2. How about something for safari :)

    http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/
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  3. @Eric
    I used the icon that is created by PDE's Sample View Wizard. It has transparent background.
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  4. @Ketan,
    Will give a try for Safari.
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  5. I can select the "Add Eclipse Search" entry, but then Firefox tells me that the plugin download failed.
    Also, the linked search page does not seem to exist.
    Any updates that I missed?
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  6. I have a similar custom search engine at http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004472050566847039233:9ld3aazskua to search java code examples. This search engine works on 13 web sites:
    http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/
    http://www.eclipse.org/swt/widgets/
    http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
    http://wiki.eclipse.org/JFaceSnippets
    http://www.bytemycode.com/tags/tag/Java/
    http://wikis.sun.com/display/code
    http://snippets.dzone.com/tag/java
    http://leepoint.net/notes-java
    http://snipplr.com/all/language/java
    www.java-examples.com
    www.javadb.com
    www.kodejava.org/examples
    www.exampledepot.com/egs
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  7. You should consider enhancing it to open bugzilla entries when just a number is entered. Perhaps even do limited bugzilla queries for on strings "JDT bug content assist"
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  8. @mklinke
    I tried just now. It works fine with me. If the search plugin doesn't work you can still search from here: http://www.cypal.in/Eclipse_Search.html

    @Thai Ha
    Thats nice !

    @Andrew Niefer
    Unfortunately Bugzilla is not open for Google - or any other robots :-(
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  9. @mklinke,
    I think the problem might be because the dns entries of cypal.in is not propagated/available to your country. If that is the case, you can access the search page here:

    http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=005277575644117340741:2jvfseaipss
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