Firefox add the Freebsd Forums as a search engine

[NapoleonWils0n]

You can add the Freebsd Forums as custom search engine with Firefox

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1 - open about:config in the Firefox address bar

about:config

enter the following text

browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh

and set it to true if it isnt already set

2 - open the Firefox setting, search

about:preferences#search

click the Add button under Search Shortcuts

and fill in the following sections

Search Engine Name:

Freebsd Forums

Engine URL, use %s in place of the search term:

https://forums.freebsd.org/search?q=%s

Alias

@freebsd

3 - Open the Address Bar

type

@freebsd

and then press tab

enter you query

that takes you to the search query page press enter
and it will return the results on the Freebsd forum

You can also create search queries that open the different tabs in the Google Search results

Google Web

Search Engine Name:

Google Web

Engine URL, use %s in place of the search term

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

Alias

@web

Google Images

Search Engine Name

Google Images

Engine URL, use %s in place of the search term

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=2

Alias

@images

Google Video

Search Engine Name

Google Video

Engine URL, use %s in place of the search term

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=7

Alias

@video

Google Forums

Google search seems to have a new section called forums
you used to get the reddit results in the main section but it looks like they have been moved into the forum tab

Search Engine Name

Google Forums

Engine URL, use %s in place of the search term

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=18

Alias

@forums

Screen shots

 

[gotnull]

Nice, Thank you.

forums.freebsd.org/search/426937/?q=%s&o=date

Do you know what the number refer to? is it a unique ID for each user?
I ask because if I make a research directly from the forum the number is different.

 

[NapoleonWils0n]

Nice, Thank you.


Do you know what the number refer to? is it a unique ID for each user?
I ask because if I make a research directly from the forum the number is different.

Hi Mate

It look lilke the number may be your user id on the forum
i tried in incognito mode not logged in and it didnt work

If you do a search on the forum and then make a note of the number in the search query
and then use that number in the custom search it should work

the mods will probably know what the number is
my guess is your right and its the user id

sorry for any confusion

logged in search

Incognito mode in the browser not logged in

if you remove the number from the search query
it returns this page

 

[NapoleonWils0n]

looks like the number is a search term and not the user id

 

[NapoleonWils0n]

ok this is weird

looks like its not the user id
but the number is maybe related to a search term

https://forums.freebsd.org/search/426937/?q=nvidia&o=date

 

[gotnull]

Hi Mate

It look lilke the number may be your user id on the forum
i tried in incognito mode not logged in and it didnt work

If you do a search on the forum and then make a note of the number in the search query
and then use that number in the custom search it should work

the mods will probably know what the number is
my guess is your right and its the user id

sorry for any confusion

It's fine no problem. I was just thinking if someone abuse it then you should probably remove you ID from the tutorial, but in any case I don't think it changes anything for you, I guess.
Thank you for the tuts as usual

 

[NapoleonWils0n]

no problem mate

looking at the url the number changes when you search for different things
so it doesnt look like its the user id but maybe a number related to the search term

if you use this url

https://forums.freebsd.org/search?q=%s

it takes you to the search page and then you can press enter
so look like one extra key press is needed

 

[NapoleonWils0n]

screenshot of the Firefox settings with new query string
without the number

if you add the number it will return results for bhyve

moral of the story is to test things like this with more than one search term

 

[NapoleonWils0n]

Another thing to mention

After you have added a custom search engine to Firefox
you can edit the keyword, but not the actual url

So if you want to change the url you have to remove the search engine and re add it