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last updated Feb-04-05
Hi, welcome to my Firefox plugins page. If you're not using
Firefox, you should consider switching. For starters, the tabbed-browsing
feature of Firefox beats the pants off Internet Explorer and
it provides better security. Here are some search plugins I
wrote.
Some of these were made in response to user
requests at mozdev.org, but most were written for my own
use and I thought they'd be useful to someone else. The Mycroft
project page has been given new life and is now regularly updated,
but I'm keeping this page for posterity.
If you like and use my plugins, drop me a note... or better
yet, some ca$h to help me offset hosting costs. Suggestions,
comments, and bug fixes are always welcome:
If you want me to write a plugin for your site, send me an email.
Mode d'emploi:
- click on the icon you want to install. It will become immediately
available once the files have downloaded. (new plugin appear
at the bottom of the search list and will resort the next
time you start Firefox.)
- To remove unwanted plugins, go to the searchplugins folder
(C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins in Windows
XP) and delete manually.
This page is getting pretty big and soon'll require dynamic
scripting. Until I get around to it, it'll have to be crappy
ole static HTML for now. The rating (out of 5) is entirely subjective
and arbitrary. It reflects the site's usefulness to me, how
useful I think it'd be to others, how well the site is designed,
and how much content is has. 3 is average, below 3 is crap.
Icons were made/edited in Photoshop.
Torrent sites |
rating |
description |
AnimeSuki |
5 |
search for your favorite unlicensed anime episodes &
movies |
Bi-torrent |
5 |
now that suprnova.org is down, here's a mirror |
isoHunt |
4 |
another torrent search, not as good as Torrentspy though
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jpopsuki |
5 |
the equivalent of AnimeSuki, but for Japanese pop music |
Loki Torrent |
0 |
they've been shut down |
The Pirate Bay |
5 |
a huge BT site from Sweden. highly recommended
WOOOOT! |
Torrent Reactor |
5 |
another really good torrent site |
Computers/Internet |
ARIN WHOIS |
5 |
American Registry for Internet Numbers
look up IP addresses by number or company name |
Computer
Associates |
5 |
look up suspicious programs that have installed themselves
on your computer with the Spyware Encyclopedia |
Divxstation |
5 |
search for subtitles for your DivX/XviD movies (use
w/VobSub). great site with lots of info and guides too.
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divxsubtitles.net |
3 |
another site for subtitles (requires registration) |
DLL-files.com |
5 |
handy free site for downloading missing Windows .DLL
files |
Filext.com |
5 |
ever download a file and wonder how the hell you open
it? look up its extension on this useful site |
MusicSearch.com |
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requested by someone on mozdev.org |
subtitles.ro |
2 |
Divx subtitles site. site's pretty crappy looking,
but lots of subs. looks like you need to register though. |
Reference Resources |
Guiness
Book of World Records |
2 |
for a publication as well-known as Guiness, their site
sure is crappy-looking. the paucity of content is shocking.
worth keeping this plugin only for the occasional records
search |
in.gr |
3 |
Greek<->English dictionary |
ISO |
5 |
look up standards at the International Organization
for Standardization |
Mandala Projects |
5 |
American University's Trade & Environmental Database,
cases studies and environmental issues |
Merriam Webster |
5 |
good dictionary with synonyms and recorded pronunications
too |
NationMaster |
5 |
very useful site for statistics & country comparisons,
but they don't have their own search engine (they use
Google instead) |
New Scientist |
4 |
good site for science and tech news, but some of the
content is available only to subscribers |
International Olympic
Committee |
5 |
records, history, information, you name it! official
Olympics site |
PSPINC |
4 |
Bi-directional Japanese-English dictionary |
Reuters exchange rates |
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enter a number to convert from USD to JPY |
Reuters |
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enter a number to convert from JPY to USD |
USPS |
3 |
enter the ZIP code to find which city it is |
Programming/Web Dev |
ActionScript.org |
5 |
useful articles, tutorials, and resources for Flash
developers |
All My FAQs Wiki |
4 |
Wiki site for programming/web related FAQs |
Dev Shed |
4 |
open source web development, a really good site for
help programming |
sitepoint |
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good site for learning how to program. many tutorials
here |
Wordpress.org |
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wordpress.org's support forums search plugin |
Shopping |
BestPrices.com |
5 |
a really cheap place to buy movies, games, and music |
Direct Textbook |
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search over 2 million new and used textbooks at online
stores and student book exchanges |
Pricenetwork Canada |
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find the lowest prices in Canada |
Gaming |
Gamers.com |
3 |
videogame news and reviews |
GameFAQs |
5 |
get cheats, FAQs, and walkthrus for your favorite games |
GamePro.com |
4 |
videogame news and reviews |
Health/Living |
Food Network |
5 |
recipe search |
Kidshealth.org |
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health information for parents and child care |
National Institute of Health |
5 |
look up medical information, conditions, diseases, etc |
Pollen.com |
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Find pollen count reports & forecasts in your area
by entering your ZIP code |
Entertainment |
Rolling Stone Magazine |
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album reviews, music news, etc |
Ticket Master |
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search and buy tickets by artist, venue, or team |
Walkerplus |
4 |
find events, bars, restaurants, movies in your local
area (in Japan). the online site for Tokyo Walker magazine |
Other |
Celebrity
Movie Archive |
3 |
a pay site, so this is for previews only of um... nekked...
celebs in various movies |
idealist.org |
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non-profit organizations |
Kowloon Motor Bus Co. |
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bus route information for Hong Kong (requested by user).
the site's icon looked generic, so i replaced it with
one i made in Photoshop |
Blog search plugins
These are being written as examples. I'll be adding more as
requests come in, or if anyone else is writing them, I can host
them here. A tutorial will be coming soon on how to make your
own plugin for your blog.
Permission is granted for you to modify and re-distribute my
plugins so long as you don't charge any money for them and that
you leave my name and website credits in the header comments.
If you'd like to write your own search plugins, just go to
the mozdev website and have a look at the documentation.
After you are done writing one, you can test it with Mindzilla's
plugin validator or by putting the files into Firefox's
plugins folder and restarting the browser. Make sure to save
your .src file as ANSI and not Unicode, or it won't work.
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the dot.com bubble, SiLM is now 4 years old and hopelessly
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