One of the coolest features of Firefox, the open source web browser by the folks at the Mozilla Foundation is the Search Box located in the up right hand corner of the browser window. That in itself isn’t amazing. Many cool browsers, like Safari, also have a search box. What makes the Firefox search box cool is that you can change which search engine it uses to submit the searches. By default it will search using Google, but there are plug-ins that have been written to make it search using just about any search engine you can name. Even cooler is that you can write your own plug-in make it utilize the search engine of many different websites.

In our district, my colleague Tim Wilson wrote a plug-in that we can use to search for tickets in our Request Tracker trouble ticketing system. To read how he did, click here.

–Pete