Comments on: Firefox Add-on

By: Matthew Kenneth

Matthew Kenneth — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:48:30 +0000

I added ecocho as my firefox’s search engine a couple of weeks ago. It used to work great, but now when I search from it I get redirected to ecocho’s front page rather than search results.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:33:42 +0000

It is simple to add Ecocho search to the standard firefox toolbar, just change it from (most likely) google.

When on the ecocho search page, click on the drop down arrow on the left of your search bar and from the drop down list select Add “Echocho Search”

that simple, no need for extra toolbars or any addons, its part of firefox standard toolbar.

By: Helledie

Helledie — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:12:54 +0000

Works perfectly.. Thanks!

-Helledie

By: Jochen

Jochen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:27:37 +0000

To use opera, go into the option (alt+p) to the tab “search” and add a new search engine (or change a current one). Under “Details”, the URL should be

http://www.ecocho.us/yahoo/web/%s_page_1.html

in order to start the search.

Works like a charm!

By: Helledie

Helledie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:43:24 +0000

Hey!

A technical question:

I use the Opera browser, and usually perform all my searches by typing directly into the adress line, e.g. “g [search word]” for a google search, or “y [search word]” for a yahoo search.
It should be possible to do the same with Ecocho, but seems to require a particular type of link (http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 to use google, or http://yahoo.opera.com/search/?q=%s&fr=opera2 for yahoo) in order to setup this shortcut function.

I don’t know if this requires any programming on your part, or if its just a question of knowing what to type..

Help would be appreciated!

-Helledie

By: Cicero

Cicero — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:38 +0000

Hello Dear Ecocho team! I love you’r site, and from now on I’ll only search by ecocho! I think this is a great idea and I’d like to help planting trees as much as I can! Besides I hope, this isn’t just a joke or a fake thing, I would very sad if it’s ^.^

Keep the good work on!

-Cicero

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:12:46 +0000

That’s great! I would suggest, however, that you go the extra step and make it follow the OpenSearch standard. That way Firefox and IE7 will unobtrusively notify you that this site has a search plugin.

A bug I found is that it doesn’t handle international characters (like German Umlauts) properly, and it doesn’t handle %20 spaces correctly in combination with the “Context Search” plugin for Firefox, whereas the regular Google has no problems with it.

By: horst

horst — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:32:51 +0000

But also add the Addon to the https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/

site.
So more people can find the Addon

By: Yves

Yves — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:10:22 +0000

Great stuff but please let me have a fix or an add-on for Safari (OSX Intel)…

By: ecocho

ecocho — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:01:18 +0000

Glad you like it, Tom. Thanks for using Ecocho!

We’d like to hear from anyone who asked for this add-on – is it what you wanted/could it be improved? Also, please let us know if there are any future add-ons you’d like to see.

Thanks!

By: Tom J

Tom J — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:18:42 +0000

Many thanks. I do 95% of my searches from that customizable toolbar in firefox, so adding a ecocho option is perfect. Its my new default.