Kenneth, I found a piece of javascript that will allow your users to
install the plugin via a webpage.  Here is an example that I have been
working on for adding our metalib search engine to the browser:

http://liboffice.villanova.edu/mozilla/

Enjoy!
Andrew

Kenneth R. Irwin wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've recently become addicted to the use of the myriad search engines
> available for the Firefox toolbar, and it seems to me that it would be
> really handy to provide our users with the opportunity to use that
> feature
> with our local OPACs.
>
> Unfortunately, I have not the first clue about how to go about doing
> that.
> I would have thought that it would be easy to find a "make your own
> search
> tool" link on the Mozilla website, but I can't find one.
>
> Has anyone tried this, or know where to find the tools you'd need to
> start
> monkeying around. It *seems* like it should be a fairly straightforward
> modification from the existing code, but I could also be delusional.
> (Actually, it seems to me like this ought to be the kind of think the
> user
> should be able to set up without any programming at all, but it doesn't
> appear to have been written that way.)
>
> Any ideas?
> Ken
>
>
> Ken Irwin
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