Simple Search Plugin for Firefox

This tutorial will show you a very simple Firefox hack that allows you to search any blog straight from the Firefox search bar without having to visit the actual blog.

1. go to http://www.scriptsocket.com/cgi-bin/firefoxplugins/generate.cgi
2. updated fields with values given in the pic below
3. generate an install search plugin

plugin will get installed in
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\searchplugins
where xxxx is a random string

sample search plugin can be found here humbles-blog.xml
Install 'Humble's Blog' Firefox Search Plugin

Reference:
http://labnol.blogspot.in/2006/09/learn-to-create-firefox-search-plugin.html
http://fahdshariff.blogspot.in/2008/07/write-search-plugin-for-firefox-howto.html
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox
http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-variables.html
http://www.scriptsocket.com/cgi-bin/firefoxplugins/generate.cgi
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Adding_search_engines_from_web_pages