Oracle News Firefox Extension
I have taken the Macromedia News Firefox extension and modified it, the result: The Oracle News Firefox extension.
If you use OraBlogs or OraNA to keep up with the latest from the Oracle blogging community, the Oracle News Firefox extension is for you. If you do not use the Firefox browser, now is a great time to switch. So, what does the Oracle News extension do? Continue reading…
19 Comments | Filed in Extensions, Firefox, Oracle | Tags: aggregator, blog, extension, FirefoxOracle docs virtual book Firefox plugin
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.
I successfully tested the Oracle documentation search plugins on both Firefox 1.0.7 and 1.5 (Beta). I noticed one difference though, which is not related to how the search plugins work but to where each FF version installs them. the plugin files in FF 1.0 were stored in the FF installation directory (usually C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins), whereas in FF 1.5 they were stored in the user’s profile directory (usually C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles...).
Back to the Oracle documentation search. Here are a couple of tips. You can refine your search results by using boolean operators and wildcard characters. Very helpful sometimes. Also note that searches are case insensitive.
Finally, it seems to me that if I use the same search string to search the documentation for versions 8.1.7, 9.2 and 10.2, version 9.2 always produces fewer (virtual book) results than the other two. Consider the following examples: Continue reading…
5 Comments | Filed in Firefox, Oracle, Plugins | Tags: Documentation, Firefox, plugin, searchWeb Development with Firefox
I came across a useful web page about using Firefox as a web development and testing tool. Firefox has some useful built-in tools like: Continue reading…
1 Comment | Filed in ColdFusion, Firefox, Tips | Tags: developer, Firefox, webFirefox tips
I have a couple of Firefox tips I would like to share with you. First, to block sending referrer information, i.e. to stop sites you visit from seeing where you come from, follow these steps: Continue reading…
5 Comments | Filed in Firefox, Tips | Tags: FirefoxOracle Firefox search plugin
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.
24 Comments | Filed in Firefox, Oracle, Plugins | Tags: Documentation, Firefox, plugin, searchGoogle Extensions for Firefox
Firefox users, rejoice. Google has introduced the following Firefox extensions:
Enjoy.
Comments Off | Filed in Firefox | Tags: extension, Firefox, GoogleThe New Firefox Reporter Tool
Deer Park Alpha 1 and the latest Mozilla Firefox trunk builds include a tool for reporting broken websites. Known as Reporter, the tool is designed to make it easy for users to send details about sites that do not work well with Firefox. When a user encounters a problematic site, he or she can use the ‘Report Broken Web Site’ command in the Help menu to fill out a problem report with all the necessary details. The user’s description of the problem is then sent to the Mozilla Foundation together with some basic information about his or her version of Firefox.
All the submitted reports can be viewed at reporter.mozilla.org using a Web interface. Existing reports can be searched using a form similiar to the Bugzilla query page and it’s also possible to get a list of the twenty-five hosts responsible for the most reports.
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