del.icio.us Firefox search hack
Posted by Eric Stein - February 22, 2007 CE @ 07:28:26 UTC
When I installed del.icio.us, I did it to replace the annoyingly 1995-style Firefox bookmarking system. Seriously, who wants to go through a slow and badly designed menu with 400 items in it when you can just type a tag in and get your results?
Anyways, all was well and good until I realized that 99% of the time when I do a del.icio.us search from the search box in Firefox, I want MY tags, not everyone's. You can't really configure the search thing to do that, though. So I did my own configuring. Here's how you can do the same!
Voila! You are now searching your own bookmarks, not Joe Schmo's.
Anyways, all was well and good until I realized that 99% of the time when I do a del.icio.us search from the search box in Firefox, I want MY tags, not everyone's. You can't really configure the search thing to do that, though. So I did my own configuring. Here's how you can do the same!
- find your profile directory (on Linux, this will be ~/.mozilla/firefox/[something])
- enter the searchplugins directory
- open the delicious-tag.xml file in your favorite text editor
- make these lines look like this (obviously use YOUR username):
<SearchForm>http://del.icio.us/eastein/</SearchForm>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://del.icio.us/eastein/{searchTerms}">
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://del.icio.us/eastein/{searchTerms}">
- save the file
- restart firefox
Voila! You are now searching your own bookmarks, not Joe Schmo's.
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