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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000><SPAN class=niviarticletitle><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class=249553223-06122005>Robert Bradbury wrote:
<BR><< </SPAN>For those of you who have made the transition to Firefox,
you will notice that after the common URL entry box at the top there is an
additional entry box to the right of it. This box has a pulldown menu for
search engines (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, etc.). So rather than taking
several clicks to pull up an additional query page you can type in what you want
to query for (e.g. Rose MR) and select which search engine you want to use from
the pull down menu. The interesting thing is that they have made this so
it can be user-extended.<SPAN class=249553223-06122005>
>></SPAN><BR></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000><SPAN class=niviarticletitle><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class=249553223-06122005></SPAN><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><STRONG>C<SPAN
class=249553223-06122005>ool. I mostly use Firefox for website
compatibility testing but I do use it
some.</SPAN></STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT
face=Verdana color=#000000><SPAN class=niviarticletitle><FONT><FONT><FONT
color=#0000ff><SPAN class=249553223-06122005></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT
color=#0000ff></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT>
<DIV><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class=249553223-06122005><<
</SPAN>So, if from the pull-down menu, I select "Add Engines" I go to [1] and
can add search engines like WebMD or Ask Jeeves. But more importantly, I
can query a database [2] to see if someone has created an interface to databases
I often use. And sure enough [3] points out that there are interfaces to
PubMed Central, NCBI PubMed and PubMed Books. For the typical PubMed
interface one wants to add (click on) the "NCBI PubMed" (</FONT></FONT><A
href="http://nlm.nih.gov/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">nlm.nih.gov</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">) [4]
and it will show up in your personal search engine list.<SPAN
class=249553223-06122005> </SPAN><SPAN
class=249553223-06122005>>></SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
class=249553223-06122005><<</SPAN>I suspect if one wants you could easily
do things like tailor this to interfaces to search public lists (local
newspapers, TV stations, etc.) and private lists (e.g. organization memberships,
patient lists, etc.) Not a breakthrough of monumental proportions but a
clear time saver for those who function under time constraints.<SPAN
class=249553223-06122005>>></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249553223-06122005><FONT face="Times New Roman">If you wish to
customize how Firefox views individual webpages it seems</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249553223-06122005><FONT face="Times New Roman">you really
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=249553223-06122005><FONT face="Times New Roman">should
look at GreaseMonkey (pretty cool idea and it may change</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249553223-06122005><FONT face="Times New Roman">the Web in
large ways):</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT><BR></DIV></SPAN></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000><SPAN class=niviarticletitle><A
style="BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px"
href="http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/greasemonkey-and-business-models"
rel=bookmark><STRONG>Greasemonkey will blow up business models (as well as your
mind) </STRONG></A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/greasemonkey-and-business-models/"><STRONG>http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/greasemonkey-and-business-models/</STRONG></A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249553223-06122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2><STRONG>Or this link from Reddit which is a blog pointer site of
quite a bit of interest</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249553223-06122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2><STRONG>to me (and possibly to those on this
list):</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=249553223-06122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://reddit.com/goto?id=15970">http://reddit.com/goto?id=15970</A></FONT></DIV></DIV><!-- Converted from text/plain format -->
<P><SPAN class=249553223-06122005><FONT size=2><STRONG>Reddit </STRONG><A
href="http://reddit.com/"><STRONG>http://reddit.com/</STRONG></A><STRONG>
(seriously worth trying)</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><FONT size=2><STRONG><SPAN class=249553223-06122005>--<BR></SPAN>Herb
Martin</STRONG></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>