Search Desiring God From Firefox
July 11, 2008 – 10:47 pmYou can now search all of desiringGod.org from Firefox. Follow along…
1. Go to desiringGod.org.
2. See how the arrow next to the Google Search Box is blue? That means you can add a search function…
3. Click it and you’ll see the option.
4. Click “Add ‘DesiringGod.org Search’”.
5. Don’t try it out just yet… right now it’s set to open in the same tab. To configure it to open in a different tab, go to about:config, click through the confirmation, and enter “browser.search.openintab” into the Filter.
6. Double-click on the line so that the “Value” (the right-most column) says “true”.
7. Try out your new search box. Important keyboard shortcut: ctrl-k. This will focus the search box by putting the cursor there. You’re now only a ctrl-k away from searching DG!
Bonus Step: If you install Google Desktop Search, you can use the keyboard shortcut ctrl-ctrl (tap ctrl twice) to bring up a Google search box from within anywhere on your computer.
Let me know if you have any questions or problems.
-Ben
3 Responses to “Search Desiring God From Firefox”
haha ben, you’re awesome.
By grace on Jul 12, 2008
this could be very good. first, google takes over the world. then, dg takes over google. mwahaha, brilliant!
By walt on Jul 12, 2008
To open in a new tab, just hold Alt while pressing Enter. It works in the main URL bar too. No config change needed.
By Ken Arnold on Jul 12, 2008