Search Stack Overflow (and Server Fault) from Firefox search box [closed]

Question

I don't want to:

• install anything (e.g toolbar)
• type too much

Basically something that would show the SO or SF favicon and do a google site:stackoverflow.com search would be just fine - but I haven't found it

Answer 1

You can use Mycroft Project to find a search engine for Firefox

Today I was able to find 2 engines, one written by Alessandro Gentilini and labelled "Stack Overflow" and the other one written by Kalevi Onni and labelled "Stack Overflow (3rd Party - Google)".

I tried the first one and it is working just fine!

There is one for serverfault.com and another one for superuser.com both written by Soon Van and both functional.

Answer 2

This already exists and is served up by every site in the trilogy.

View source and look for

<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" 
      title="Meta Stack Overflow" href="http://sstatic.net/mso/opensearch.xml">

Just use the little drop-down menu in the search bar next to the address bar on most browsers.

(It is a bit different in Google Chrome as Chrome has only one unified address bar, as Semi points out in his answer)

Alternately going to

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/search

Look for "search {site} with.." where you can type and press enter to use an alternative search engine:

Answer 3

I did this back in March of 2009:

<searchplugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
 <shortname>Stack Overflow</shortname>
 <description>Stack Overflow Google Search</description>
 <inputencoding>UTF-8</inputencoding>
 <img height="16" width="16" />data:image/x-icon;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAMQAAGZmZu6+gNhWI+aeQfvv35lmM8+4oOB4T/fd0+CGEbuZd9bCrf///+HClvPPoOSWMbSPaeWObOiae9thMvro4vffwOTWyequYPj18f337/XXsOimUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAHAP8ALAAAAAAQABAAAAVhICOOYjYJCKmSkjBRaxwJRxZXzpgdQhRviYdGRDlJVoRLIjgsTmyrTOARrCBSJMPCgmEQNINNrEAmKwyNSsyggJTJKgBAhbEsDAy5SC/v9/NzgIB+fIF6MXuGhIuHjIwMIQA7</img>
 <url template="http://www.google.com/search" method="GET" type="text/html">
     <param value="site:stackoverflow.com {searchTerms}" name="q" />
     <param value="utf-8" name="ie" />
     <param value="utf-8" name="oe" />
     <param value="t"name="aq" />
 </url>
 <searchform>http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Astackoverflow.com</searchform>
</searchplugin>

Answer 4

I would like to add that for any Google Chrome users reading this, just do this:

1. Search for anything in the stackoverflow search. Chrome will automatically learn that it is a search.
2. In the address bar, start typing "stackoverflow" until it completes to "stackoverflow.com/", Hit tab, and now the address bar should say "Search stackoverflow.com:" in light blue. Now just type your search terms after that and hit enter.

Answer 5

In Firefox, right-click on the search box and select 'Add a K eyword for this Search...'.

Then in your address bar you can go something like:

o <search string here>

Presuming you set the keyword to o for SO, of course :)

I do this with several custom search fields inside Firefox.

Answer 6

This functionality was added in Firefox 83

Firefox support: Add search engines, then you can tab-search like on Chrome.