MSDN search on Firefox
November 22, 2005 3:42I use Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser, mainly for its great extensibility through extensions/plugin/whatever. They are a big add-on for every developer! Anybody knows that customization is not a primary goal for the mainstream market (most of end-users prefer standardization); however if you are a developer you try to tailor to your needs everything, starting from the development IDE through the web browser.
Having heard from Antimail of the new MSDN search engine, I could not resist to add it to the search engines in Firefox.. =) Here is the code and png images for it.
BTW, I hope Microsoft will add a managed model to IE 7. Making the browser features exposed to .NET languages will be great. I'm not talking about the HTML rendering component: this one is already an ActiveX object re-usable in every application. I think about the whole browser: context menus, searchbar, progress, address and menubars.. It should be a pleasure to write Browsers plugin with .NET: for now, it is possible only in the excellent new Visual Studio 2005!
msdnplugin.src (.89 KB)
msdnplugin.png (.88 KB)
Having heard from Antimail of the new MSDN search engine, I could not resist to add it to the search engines in Firefox.. =) Here is the code and png images for it.
BTW, I hope Microsoft will add a managed model to IE 7. Making the browser features exposed to .NET languages will be great. I'm not talking about the HTML rendering component: this one is already an ActiveX object re-usable in every application. I think about the whole browser: context menus, searchbar, progress, address and menubars.. It should be a pleasure to write Browsers plugin with .NET: for now, it is possible only in the excellent new Visual Studio 2005!
msdnplugin.src (.89 KB)
msdnplugin.png (.88 KB)
