How to create a Firefox 2.x site search option for your site.

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This refers to that search drop down box at the top right of Firefox 2.0. The 1.x version is different, so this will only work if you have 2.x.

This will provide a google site search within the Firefox browser.

As you can see, the image is base64 encoded. You can use this site to encode your image. I used a transparent gif.

<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>Code Newbie</ShortName>
<Description>Code Newbie Site Search</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
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<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/search">
  <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
  <Param name="sitesearch" value="codenewbie.com"/>
</Url>
<SearchForm>http://google.com/</SearchForm>
</SearchPlugin>

Name that file whatever.xml and drop it in your Mozilla Firefox/searchplugins/ directory.