But as it only supports IE (at the moment) I haven't installed it.
Cheers, APC
Eddie Awad
· 3 years ago
I use Firefox for my daily browsing, nevertheless, I installed the IE-only Oracle toolbar out of curiosity.
Basically, it has three main functions:
<ol> <li>It adds a search box to search Oracle-only sites using search.oracle.com</li> <li>It adds shortcuts to a few Oracle-only places like OTN, Metalink and downloads.</li> <li>It adds a small rotating headlines box for Oracle-only RSS feeds.</li> </ol>
I guess some people may find it useful, others may find it too limiting.
Rob V
· 3 years ago
That's all great, but there's a much easier way to get information than searching documentation. Just ask Tim Hall your questions directly without checking the docs. He loves that! :)
ronald
· 3 years ago
thanks again Eddie!
Alex Gorbachev
· 3 years ago
Am I too stupid to figure out how to add your custom searches to Firefox 2? The icon is the same and there is no java-script link.
Eddie Awad
· 3 years ago
Alex, assuming that you have Firefox 2 and JavaScript enabled, you should be able to just click on any link under Install Oracle search plugins heading in the post above to install the corresponding search plugin.
Once installed, you will be able to select it from the list of search engines in the search bar (usually at the top right corner of your browser window - Ctrl+K to go there).
An alternative approach that I did not mention in the post, is to actually manually save the search plugin XML file (http://awads.net/misc/searchplugins/OraBlogs.xml for example) to your "searchplugins" folder in your Firefox profile folder, and then restart Firefox.
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Oracle have launched their own toolbar for searching "DBA resources on OTN":
http://www.oracle.com/technology/toolbar/install/index.html
But as it only supports IE (at the moment) I haven't installed it.
Cheers, APC
I use Firefox for my daily browsing, nevertheless, I installed the IE-only Oracle toolbar out of curiosity.
Basically, it has three main functions:
<ol>
<li>It adds a search box to search Oracle-only sites using search.oracle.com</li>
<li>It adds shortcuts to a few Oracle-only places like OTN, Metalink and downloads.</li>
<li>It adds a small rotating headlines box for Oracle-only RSS feeds.</li>
</ol>
I guess some people may find it useful, others may find it too limiting.
That's all great, but there's a much easier way to get information than searching documentation. Just ask Tim Hall your questions directly without checking the docs. He loves that! :)
thanks again Eddie!
Am I too stupid to figure out how to add your custom searches to Firefox 2?
The icon is the same and there is no java-script link.
Alex, assuming that you have Firefox 2 and JavaScript enabled, you should be able to just click on any link under Install Oracle search plugins heading in the post above to install the corresponding search plugin.
Once installed, you will be able to select it from the list of search engines in the search bar (usually at the top right corner of your browser window - Ctrl+K to go there).
An alternative approach that I did not mention in the post, is to actually manually save the search plugin XML file (http://awads.net/misc/searchplugins/OraBlogs.xml for example) to your "searchplugins" folder in your Firefox profile folder, and then restart Firefox.