Up in the top right corner of Firefox, there’s a handy search box that puts search engines at your fingertips. When you download Firefox, a number of searches (like Google, Yahoo, and Ebay) are included but you can easily add more.
Because I find myself quite frequently using tahiti.oracle.com to search the Oracle documentation, I created my own Firefox search plugin to do just that, search the Oracle documentation. You can download, install and use my search plugin from here. The search plugin will only work in Mozilla Firefox. If you do not use Firefox, now is a great time to switch and use this great browser along with the other 75,000,000 users.
Possibly related:
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Hope everything is working out...
Great job, Eddie. Very useful tool, this.
August 3rd, 2005, at 10:59 pm #Like it! Thanks very much.
August 4th, 2005, at 2:12 am #Hi,
Another search plug-in that might be useful is the OraFAQ plug-in - http://www.orafaq.com/about/search.htm#searchplugin
Best regards.
Frank
August 4th, 2005, at 1:04 pm #Hi!
Yes it very useful. I like it.
Adam
August 4th, 2005, at 11:58 pm #Great plug-in, very useful.
Thanks
August 5th, 2005, at 12:40 am #thank you very much, it will be very useful on a daily basis
August 5th, 2005, at 2:50 am #eric
Thanks!! Great tool!
August 5th, 2005, at 5:52 am #Neat plugin. Very Handy.
Keep it up
Tarry
August 5th, 2005, at 6:43 am #[…] Eddie Awad has created a plugin for Firefox which lets you search the Oracle documentation. Read his posting: Oracle Firefox search plugin. Have a look at the plugin, adding a search engine to Firefox is amazingly simple. It’s not even a real plugin, it’s just some lines of javascript code. […]
August 5th, 2005, at 7:46 am #Kudos!
August 5th, 2005, at 8:58 am #Hi Eddie,
Thanks for the plugin.
Here is another simple method:
Add following link as bookmark and while bookmarking in the ‘Keyword’ field, give some short code…say oradoc.
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db92/print\_hit\_summary?search_string=%s
This will allow you to search directly from the address bar, instead of going to the search field. Just type the keyword followed by the search string:
oradoc sys_context
oradoc alter table
Enjoy!
August 6th, 2005, at 5:35 am #Thanks Uday. That’s a pretty neat trick using bookmark keywords.
August 6th, 2005, at 7:47 am #This is a good and usefull tool..
August 15th, 2005, at 6:33 pm #Tool and tip of Uday both are cool.. Thanks
August 26th, 2005, at 2:21 am #[…] Following the Search Plugins for askTom and Oracle Docs, I created a search plugin for the Amis Technology Blog. […]
September 5th, 2005, at 10:43 pm #[…] Even though the “Format results into a virtual book” has always been an option for displaying Oracle documentation search results, I have never paid attention to it until Tom Kyte mentioned it in his latest podcast. After trying out this option a couple of times, I noticed that it could easily be converted to a Firefox search plugin. Unlike my other Oracle documentation search plugin, this one is version specific. I have created three search plugins, one for Oracle DB version 8.1.7, one for 9.2 and another for 10.2. The result of the search is directly formatted into a virtual book. […]
September 26th, 2005, at 5:10 am #Thanks, I like it!
October 2nd, 2005, at 4:07 am #[…] Similar to my other two Firefox search plugins (found here and here), I have now created a plugin to search Metalink (as promised). You can download it from here. […]
October 6th, 2005, at 4:55 am #[…] Another option is to use my Oracle Docs Firefox search plugin. In the Firefox search box (top right corner), I make sure that Oracle Docs is selected, I type in what I am looking for then hit enter (usually I hit Alt+Enter to open the result in a new tab). […]
November 21st, 2005, at 6:54 am #Nice plugin, thanks! I’ll use it.
July 5th, 2006, at 1:33 am #