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Hi, i've been using flock for a couple of days now and i must admit that i am really impressed.
I have already changed the default search engine from yahoo to google but i was wondering whether it would be possible to change it also in the search toolbar.
Is there any way that instead of showing the 4 first results in the search toolbar from yahoo it could be done using google?
Jon Homan
Hi mpardsu,
As far as I know, you are unable to do that without changing some code or writing an extension.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Jon Homan
Community Support
mpardsu
Hi, first of all thanks for the reply. Secondly, since I have some experience in programming in various languages I would like to try and do it myself, the only thing is that I haven't tried anything like this before. Are there any online resources that could help me get started? (ie Developer Mailing lists, extension writing tutorials etc)
Jon Homan
Hi mpardsu,
For more information, you can check out the developer section on Flock's wiki. In the developer section, you will find a page on creating extensions for Flock, along with other information that might come in handy. Also, Flock has a developer mailing list that might be useful to you. Finally, the Participate page has more links pertaining to coding.
Hope this helps.
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Jon Homan
Community Support
erwan
Hi mpardsu,
The reason why we proposed Yahoo live search results and not Google is because Google's search API licence is much more restrictive than the Yahoo one. Technically it would be very easy to change the code to Google, but I'm not sure if it is possible by an extension (as far as I remember the search popup is hardcoded and hard to extend).
The good news is that thanks to Raj (http://flock.com/about/411) in the development version we have a search box that is much more extensible. You can basically add live results for any search engine in a few lines of code.
AlexAubert
Hi,
That's a very old post but I think people are still interesting by this subject. You told us a year ago that Raj has a development version to get the live results from any search engine.
So, a year later is there a solution to get the live result from other search engine such as google of course but other customs one ?
Please tell us if there is a solution for this.
Another question is I use Foxmarks bookmarks sync, This extension doesn't work with flock (I guess it's a path issue), any idea on how make it works on Flock.
Cheers for your 1.0 release, you did a very good job !
Regards
aRgus
Actually it's pretty easy:
1. Open up about:config in the address bar
2. Change these Values:
browser.search.defaultenginenamefrom Yahoo! to Googlebrowser.search.defaulturlto http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Hope that helped!
anakrinokairos
Sorry aRgus, but I couldn't find the second line (..url)
Did that change in the 1.0?
aRgus
Nope it's in there. I just did it in 1.0. Filter by the work "search"
aRgus_
Actually I apologize. use keyword.URL. I was in a different release. Sorry about that.
custom web design
browser.search.defaulturl isn't in my 1.0.1, so I added it as a string, and set the value to http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=, but I'm still only getting Yahoo! live results in the drop-down... any ideas?
custom web design
damn I misread the comments... but after changing keyword.URL to http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=, same behavior, yahoo results instead of google in the dropdown
cunninG
That cannot be done because Google API is not implemented for Live Results in the Search toolbar. So stop trying :)
What you can do is change default search engine from Yahoo to Google.
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badger
I'm not trying to change live results, I don't use that feature.
I'd just like to change the default from yahoo to google when entering search terms in the address bar (as opposed to the search bar, which I have set to google).
I set the about:config setting, and I had to create the 2nd entry. I assume this is discouraged for some reason? I simply prefer google to yahoo, sorry Yahooligans. :)
badger
Gert p
I dislike this yahoo-stuf two, I don't understand why they changed this.
I sugest everyone who wants google emails it to the makers so they know it and maybe change is.
here is the message I send to them, do not mention the faults, my english is verry bad:
hello, I think flock is realy great, but there is one thing I don't understand why you have changed it; the default search-engine, you changed from google to yahoo?
first off all, yahoo is good for people from the US, but me for instance, I am from belgium, if I try to find something on google (for instance wikipedia) the first thing google gives me is wikipedio belgium, seccond worldwide ..., yahoo dousn't even mention the existance of the belgiun sites.
seccond, if you type something in the adressbar of firefox and the search had one result that is verry poppular, you go straight to that site, a function verru much used, that is missing here becous you guys use yahoo.
thirth is just the fact google realy does verry much for the open source community, like promoting firefox, organising the summercamp of code ... so changing this radically to yahoo is just a slap in the face of one of the biggest and well known company that promotes open source.
so in my opinion, and its not onley mine,it is mayby better to make this yahoo-thing an option in the preferences of flock, and an other thing I think is best you let the user decide to use er to not use is the search-bar, I like it much better like it is in firefox
best regards
One of your new users
Gert P.
send it to http://www.flock.com/feedback
Gert P
http://gp-opensource.blogspot.com/2007/11/make-flock-work-more-like-firefox.html
wtflock
Interesting experience (using Flock), but the lack of this one feature (google live search) is just too annoying to live without. Alas, fair well Flock, it was real, and it was fun, but it wasn't "real fun".
Your Name
flock really needs to include the google live search feature.
vortex
my way: switch to search bar from google toolbar (http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/index.html) and hide flock search bar & google panel, but native google live search with flock better
http://lh5.google.com/vortex.jedi/R-eA9J7BCGI/AAAAAAAAAOA/Ui5rBtSkXuM/flock_google_live_search.jpg
fullerenedream
Gert P's solution worked perfectly for me. Thank you!!!