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Authored by: jmb on Sep 23, '02 06:03:11PM

Couldn't get it to work before but, by following the release notes to get around the excite.com default, I got it working...

In short, go into the WedsiteDefaults.string file located inside the app package (drill down a couple of levels, I think it's in Contents/Resources) and change the default search page, putting in the java script string in place of the url that is currently there. Delete out the leading comment marks, and delete everything after the semicolon (leave in the quotes surrounding the url, though). Save and re-launch Chimera. Works like a charm, and the searching on highlighted text works here, too. Very cool.



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Sweet! Thanks!
Authored by: avonterr on Sep 23, '02 06:40:00PM

In Chimera: Highlight text - Cmd-Shift-F runs the Google search!

Two requests for the gurus:

(1) Can we get this going in Mozilla?

(2) Can we build a Toolbar Item (or a Control-Click menu item) that will run the javascript?



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Sweet! Thanks!
Authored by: mahakali on Sep 26, '02 02:09:26PM
(1) Can we get this going in Mozilla?

In Mozilla, you just need to highlight the words, control-click and choose Web Search for «whatever text you highlighted». You can specify your search engine from the preferences.

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Authored by: jmb on Sep 23, '02 08:16:40PM

I'm not sure what you mean by building a toolbar item. In Chimera, you can customize the toolbar and add the search button to it. Using the above mods, the toolbar search button (or cmd-shift-f) will pull up the search sheet. Can you directly modify the preferred search site in the Mozilla prefs? If so, you could probably just paste the javascript into the url field. You can't access these prefs in Chimera (yet) so you have to do it the hard way.



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Authored by: avonterr on Sep 23, '02 11:04:29PM

I'd like to be able to highlight the text, then click a tool on the toolbar.



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Authored by: tu11ym0n on Sep 24, '02 02:47:02AM

thanks! this worked like a charm for Chimera. :) would be nice if the sheet could have a pulldown of several search engine options, no?

cheers



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