Add Search Engine Plug-Ins

By default, the Search Bar contains 6 search engine plug-ins: (Google, Yahoo, Amazon.com, Answers.com, Creative Commons, eBay).

You have the ability to add to this list; and your choices number in the thousands!

To watch a video on adding search engine plug-ins, click on the “Play Video” button below. Or, scroll down for step-by-step instructions with screenshots:

Step-by-Step Instructions with Screenshots

Start by clicking on the icon located on the left of your Search Bar:

Click on “Manage Search Engines…”:

The “Manage Search Engine List” window will appear.

Click on “Get more search engines…”:

A Firefox Add-Ons web page will open up. In the middle of this page, there is a list of the more popular search engine plug-ins.

To install one of these, you would simply click on the provided hyperlink. For example, let’s say you want to install Amazon’s A9 search engine plug-in. You would click on the A9 hyperlink:

The “Add Search Engine” window will appear.

Click the “Add” button.

If you want to start using this plug-in right away, click on the box labeled “Start using right away.”

When you return to your Search Bar, you’ll notice that the A9 search plug-in has been added to the list:

Those are the basics…

But there’s more!

Go back to the Firefox Add-Ons website and scroll down to the bottom of the page. You’ll see a section called “Additional Resources.”

Click on the mycroft.mozdev.org link:

You will be taken to the Mozdev.org website, which contains just about any search plug-in that you can think of.

Near the top of the page, you find the section called “Find Search Engine Plugins / Search Providers.” Here you can type in the URL of a website, and it will search for any plug-ins for that specific site.

But I’d like to point you to the “Advanced Search” link. Click on it: