On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:14:53 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby wrote: I fired up my ancient version of Mozilla Suite (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060711)
> From memory (it was a long time ago, now), it used to be quite simple; > it used to be able to be done, simply, using one of two methods; > clicking on the Search button to the right of the URL text box, with the > non-dominant mouse button, which would list the search engines > available to use with that button, the list, at the bottom, including an > option "Add new search engine", which would lead to a dialogue box, into > which the user would enter the URL for the search engine (eg, > www.yahoo.com, or, www.altavista.com), Nope. Nothing happens when I right-click on the Search button. > or, using the menu route; Edit -> > Preferences -> Navigator -> Internet Search, which then had the option > "Add new search engine", which then went through the procedure Nope. No option to add a new search engine. > That, from memory, is how it used to be able to be done, with both ways > of doing it, being available to the user, but, over the years, with > changes to the software, and, the renaming (Netscape -> Mozilla -> > Seamonkey/Firefox), that facility appears to have got lost in the > process, and, the software less easy to use, so that, now, it appears, > for a user to do what used to be simple, like adding extra search > engines, and, changing the deafult search engine, the user has to do > coding to achieve what the software used to do for the user. You might have been using a extension that did this. The way I would do it would be to go to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html, search for an suitable engine. The results will show engines in various formats. SeaMonkey and the old Suite uses only Sherlock format engines (with the apple like logo). Once I find one I want I click on the install link and then SeaMonkey would prompt me if I wanted to install it. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
