With the 1.5 Firefox release, maybe there wasn’t too many improvements to the search bar in the upper right of your browser window. They have made advancements by leaps and bounds by making it easier to add a search engine to your browser.
The new search engines Web page is welcome change from the look of MyCroft site. The choices haven’t been improved any on the new Web page. That isn’t the exciting part. The exciting part is I am now not afraid to send somebody to that page to get a few new search engines without being afraid they would get lost.
Some of the front page included searches are: A9, Flickr tags, MSN, AOL, WebMD, Market Watch, and Wikipedia. Now if they could only make the rest of the search engine experience more friendly for the rest of the folks who might be scared of the trip down Mozilla Lane.
Another nice feature of this new Web page is they link to a Firefox extension that makes it really easy to remove search engines from the drop down menu. It allows uninstalling search plugins - just right click on a search plugin and choose “Delete”. I’d like for that to be something built into Firefox 2.0, but I know they might have more important things to worry about right now.
So give the new search engine Web page a shot and try out the Search Plugin Hacks extension. You’ll be searching various places like a pro in no time at all.
