Add Salesforce to Your Firefox Search Bar
Aug 4, 2005For those
of you who haven’t made the switch to Firefox, this is yet another
incentive to do so. Paul Constantinides created a very simple plug-in which
allows you to run a Salesforce advanced search or a Supportforce solution
search, right from the Firefox search bar.
This is also exciting because it demonstrates the extendibility and open nature of both salesforce.com and Firefox. For all the developers reading this post, what other types of Firefox Extensions could you build? Who’s going to be the first to design a salesforce widget?
Note that when you perform a search you will be prompted by salesforce.com to login if you do not have a valid session. The Firefox search bar is especially useful for those customers who have implemented single sign-on. Single sign-on allows users within a corporate network to log in seamlessly and automatically (similar to how Outlook users do not need to log in when they are on the corporate network.) Note that this feature requires a partner product or implementation of a delegated authentication listener. It's well worth looking into because by saving 2-3 clicks, you can dramatically increase user adoption.
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For more
synergies between Firefox and Salesforce.com, reference our post from January
about tabbed browsing and the find function.
Bookmark
I can seee it now....
"Fireforcefoxgoogle.com"
And it will be good.
Posted by: Andres Glueckksmann | August 04, 2005 at 07:07 AM
EPIC! Great work
Posted by: Sina | August 04, 2005 at 01:00 PM
This is so cool. I can search Supportforce Solutions as easily as i can search Google or Amazon.
Posted by: Mark | August 04, 2005 at 03:53 PM
In fact, you don't even need a plugin to search salesforce.com directly from firefox. you can use the built in quicksearch feature.
1) login to salesforce
2) do a sidebar search or advanced search
3) select Bookmarks -> Bookmark this page...
4) save it in any folder although "Quick Searches" is best
5) find your bookmark under you Bookmarks menu and right click to view its properties
6) for the location, replace the word you searched for with %s
7) change the keyword to sfdc
now when you type "sfdc yoursearchterm" into the browser location bar, it will search salesforce.com
for more infomation see
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_Tips_:_Quick_searches
Posted by: Paul Nakada | August 05, 2005 at 03:17 PM
I've installed this advanced search option, but I don't see the icons showing up as a 'search option' in the Google toolbar. I don't see any other options than Google search / images/groups/feeling lucky. Where did all my other search options go? Is anyone else having this problem?
Posted by: Rachael O | August 09, 2005 at 09:18 AM
Great! Now, how about Mail Merge?
Posted by: Anonymous | August 10, 2005 at 07:20 PM
I've used the solution mentioned by Rachel O on August 9 for months. It works very nicely and so I've got to ask.... what is the advantage of the extension???
Posted by: Dave Marcus | August 24, 2005 at 04:14 PM
Anyone know any updates for Firefox 1.5. When I upgraded it broke.
Posted by: Jame | November 30, 2005 at 04:17 PM