Donald Gillies wrote:
> I use a special firefox browser extension to view vintage bicycle
> auctions and bikelist.org. I first download the Firefox Extension
> called "Webmail Compose". (In firefox, select Tools Menu, Extensions,
> then 'Get more Extensions'.) This tool that allows you to go to ANY
> Web mailer (i.e. Yahoo!, Gmail!) by left-clicking a mail URL (not
> just the stupid netscape mailer), or right-click to select a
> particular mailer to send email (any of 8 different mailers :
> yahoo!, hotmail! gmail! netscape!, etc. )
>
> It is this second option I redirect to get me around the web MUCH
> FASTER. I reprogram 2 of the mailer options so that I can :
>
> (a) select any text URL, then open as an URL. extremely useful on
> bikelist.org which does not convert URL's into real links.
>
> (b) select any Ebay auction number, open that auction right away.
>
> (c) you can dream up your own searches, i.e. search for a book on
> amazon, for example.
If you click the drop-down arrow on the Firefox search box (in the upper right corner -- by default this is set to google), you can select from a number of different search engines. eBay is one of the included engines. Select this, type your query or listing number into the box, hit RETURN and you will get the eBay search results. Other search engines can also be included here -- see http://mycroft.mozdev.org for a huge list of what's available.
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA