Add searches to Netscape 8 Beta

W00T! Okay I found it and it works. You just copy the contense of the "searchplugins" folder for Firefox into the same folder of Netscape in you documents and settings area. All of them will appear. I recomend going to the search in Firefox, click the last entry "add searces" and add everything on the page, then copy to the Netscape folder because going to that page and clicking will NOT add those searches to Netscape. That way you have everything offered at the Mozilla site.

 

WindsorFox,

Glad to see you found the way to add your own choice of Search Engines. I didn't see this thread at first, and gave you an answer here:
http://www.windowsbbs.com/showpost.php?p=229045&postcount=11

Good going!

Ramona

 

I don't have a searchplugins in the FF profile folder.

 

Yes you do, you can not find it by using the search function in Windows. Although you should find the default one.


Thanks Ramona, tell me, what exactly is mycroft? I saw references to it but wasn't sure what it did.

 

Westside,

I didn't either until I copied my Mozilla searchplugins folder to Firefox...

Ramona

 

May be I was thrown off by the Documents and Setting line. Anyway, I found a searchplugins folder in the FF program. I deleted eBay, and then found out that NS8 had no such folder, so I copied the entire folder from FF to NS8 beta.
I got rid of the space hogging Search bucket (they call it container), so I don't see it in the usual toolbar. But, I do have the options in the Sidebar search tab.
And, for whatever reason, I have eBay. So, the idea works, more or less.

 

WindsorFox,

Mycroft is an extension, and you can read about it here
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/

Ramona

 

FYI, the searches names work, in the Sidebar, but only search with Netscape work. I tried with Google, Alta Vista and Yahoo, and got no response.
I have Copernic outside the browser, so, I have no need for internal searches, but this is what I see.