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Comment by ivankirigin | Hacker News Reader

I wonder how easy it would be to make a firefox plugin that let you easily search the site of the tab you're in...

I have one made, just trying to figure out how to share it.

I can't find anywhere on the Mozilla development site that just lets you upload the xml file. They want to make me fill out a form that builds the plugin for me. Problem is that their form isn't really powerful enough to actually make a decent plugin. What am I missing?

For now it has been uploaded to: http://www.lorebroker.com/ycombinator.xml

Just download and stick in your searchplugins directory (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins in Windows) along with the other plugins you find there.

I have created a plugin, that can be used for searching ycombinator.It is available here: http://trk7.com/yc, on just needs to click on it to install in FF and IE7.

Now that would be awesome. Even better if you could configure your own search engine. I use scroogle, but site:currentsite.com still works...

A quick hunt[1] didn't throw up anything for me... [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=current+si...

google toolbar has a "search this site" button

i don't want a toolbar. The firefox search area is about all i'm willing to use. It would be nice if pressing ctrl-enter to submit (or something as simple) would just search the site.

It would also be nice to use another key like alt or shift to dictate whether to open a new tab or use the current one.

My guess is that this takes an extension, not a plugin.

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