Firefox Search Plugins: Searching Your Library in the Browser

Mozilla's Firefox web browser is well-known among developers for its functionality and extensibility. Now, with a market share of more than 8 percent, Firefox is becoming more popular with library users and offers opportunity to increase access to library tools through browser plugins. This tutorial explains howto integrate the library catalog into the Firefox search bar. Step-by-step instructions are provided for interpreting your library catalog's URL structure, building an XML file that will control how the search box functions when your search is selected, creating an icon, and testing the new search tool. This tutorial is appropriate for beginning to intermediate users.(C) 2007 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.