Customize your Web Browser for
MetaLink Searching
This is a great technique to build-in a MetaLink search facility,
right in to your Firefox browser. You can now quickly search
MetaLink, right from your browser, and then repeat the search on
Google. Here is how to do it:
1 – Download Firefox and say goodbye to IE-induced spyware
infections:
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox&os=win&lang=en-US
2 – Check-out this great Oracle-l extension, courtesy of Matt Penny:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/12-2004/msg00459.html
Copy the two items into your
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins directory:
metalink.gif
http://www.cbdba.net/images/metalink.gif
metalink.src
<search
name="Metalink"
description="Metalink"
method="GET"
action="
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_gui.handleSearchRequest";
searchForm="
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_gui.queryform";
queryEncoding="utf-8"
queryCharset="utf-8"
version="7.1"
>
<input name="p_text"
user>
<interpret
browserResultType="result"
charset =
"UTF-8"
resultListStart="<!--a-->"
resultListEnd="<!--z-->"
resultItemStart="<!--m-->"
resultItemEnd="<!--n-->"
>
<browser
update="
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/metalink.src";
updateIcon="
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/metalink.gif";
updateCheckDays="1"
>
</search>
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