Safari users who have had the pleasure of using the Inquisitor search plugin will be pleased to know they can now receive the same functionality on Firefox & presumably Flock too. The plugin which was acquired by Yahoo earlier this year was originally developed by David Watanabe who also developed Acquisition, XTorrent and the gorgeous RSS reader Newsfire.
The plugin shows you instant search results with an elegant UI “as you type” in your search field in top right corner of the browser. I personally use the search field all the time, which has really left the idea of a browser ‘home page’ as worthless to me now.
Unfortunately, there is one major drawback, the results shown are Yahoo results which aren’t a problem when you’re looking for one particular site but for full search results you’re better off with google. It does also disallow the usage of other search plugins which is definitely something that needs fixing immediately. The good news is that should you not be happy with it, it’s a matter of unticking a box in your settings and waiting until Inquisitr enables google results… :)
To try it out you’ll need to signup/login at Mozilla as the plugin is currently in testing.
Thanks for this information.
It’s a great addon which i used for Safari.
Now it’s in my default browser, how sweet is that :)
Hey Pizr, that’s true! I discovered that soon after I wrote this…the only thing is they change it back to yahoo after every reboot which is very sneaky…but it’s not difficult to change back to google. I hope they bring in the international google’s for us guys soon :)
In the options screen of firefox, there is a new tab: Inquisitor, here you can choose for Google search results!
I’ve just rebooted to test it, but it is still using Google! So here it works perfect!
oh fantastic – will try installing maybe mines buggy.
Well I just installed it and the bug with enabling Google is still working on my version of Firefox 3.0.3. It’s a great extension, and when the Google search issue is resolved I’ll be sure to make it a Firefox must have. Until then, I’m switching back to my standard Google search, which is fine, because I usually search from the location bar anyway.