Armory add-on for Firefox going live soon
by Robin Torres 
Sep 25th 2007 at 8:30AM
CM Drysc announced on the WoW General Forum that they are developing a Firefox add-on for searching the Armory.For those of you who are not familiar with Mozilla's Firefox, it is a browser that can be used on Macs or PCs (even Linux) and has a great dropdown search function for quick lookups on certain sites. Wowhead has one as does WoWwiki and so do we here at WoW Insider (link goes to add-on). You can go to the Firefox Search Engine page to install any of these add-ons onto your version of Firefox.
Drysc says to check in at the Armory over the next couple of days for the announcement that the search engine has been completed.
Filed under: Blizzard, News items, Add-Ons
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kalroth Sep 25th 2007 8:54AM
A couple of days for 20 minutes of work? I hope that the Blizzard search add-on got something special to offer :)
Anyways, here's a quick page I did for the Firefox search bar: http://acdev.org/armory-search/
Hollywood Ron Sep 25th 2007 9:04AM
If I'm going to go to all the trouble to tab out and bring up Firefox, that add-on won't save me any time. What they need to make, and I know I'm not alone here, is a browser you can get to in-game.
Liel Sep 25th 2007 9:16AM
@2 browser in game just opens the potential for security exploits
Ryan Sep 25th 2007 9:20AM
How will this one be any different from the one that already exists on the firefox site? Methinks Blizz has a serious case of NIH.
Charlie Sep 25th 2007 9:22AM
@2 Just run in windowed mode with firefox open at all times, or run with a second comp if you can.
Windowed mode works best on a mac though. being able to tile all of your windows instantaneously and then just click all the ones you want to bring to the front is amazing. Gogogo Fn+f9. Yay!
PeeWee Sep 25th 2007 9:31AM
No need for alt-tabbing if you run in Windowed mode and use dual monitors.
Good 19" TFT are really cheap these days, and I don't think any graphics adapter worth its name that has been sold the last 4 years does NOT have support for dual monitors.
Krab Sep 25th 2007 9:36AM
for some odd reason i already have this in my firefox and have had it for well over a month now. how is this new?
Rob Sep 25th 2007 10:06AM
How nice. You can already add it to IE BTW.
Just click on the arrow next to the search bar in IE7 and select "Find More Providers..."
On the right side of the page is a box where you can add ANY site search that you want. To add the armory. Just put in this URL:
http://www.wowarmory.com/search.xml?searchQuery=TEST&searchType=all
Give it a name and hit save. Easy peasy!
mikey Sep 25th 2007 10:41AM
@8 : Yes, but it will still be nice to have it in a clean, unbloated browser that has decent security options.
Rob Sep 25th 2007 1:11PM
@9 'atta boy! Keep fighting "the man."
jake Sep 25th 2007 1:32PM
LoL Blizz is way late on this one. There was a user created Armory search plugin created months ago!
You'll find it here:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=wow+armory&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes&submitform=Search
jake Sep 25th 2007 1:37PM
@10 I hope you enjoy virus', spyware and malware and slower page loading times! Sorry, but there is not a single thing about IE that is better than Firefox.
AlmtyBob Sep 25th 2007 1:40PM
A while ago I got irritated at having to search through the list of all similarly named characters across every server whenever I only cared about my server. I wrote a quick and dirty search bar plugin for Firefox that will only return characters from my server, The Underbog.
Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\yourprofile\searchplugins and create a text file called "armory.src" (or whatever.src) and insert the following:
on the second to last line with the name of your server. For example, for Uther the line would like:
Don't forget to replace a space in the server name with a + sign. When Firefox is restarted hit control+k to get to the search bar and then control+down until you see a blank document icon and type in a character name. You'll immediately be taken to the profile of that character on your server. This is immensely helpful when you're searching a long /who list for a specific spec. It's possible to make or download a 16x16 gif to replace the generic icon in the search bar but this works well enough for me.
AlmtyBob Sep 25th 2007 1:44PM
Ooops, to see the markup for the armory search plugin I mentioned in 13 check out http://www.ramenite.net/armory.txt
Replace The+Underbog with the name of your server.
Rob Sep 25th 2007 2:45PM
@12: I've been a Web Developer and IE user for a very long time now. For the most part, the arguments are retarded, there's nothing wrong with Firefox. It's my browser of choice on mac. I just happen to think IE7 is better on PC. I just can't help but get defensive when I see uninformed users like yourself spewing rubbish.
There is absolutely nothing inherent in FF that makes it any more or less secure then using IE7. Aside from that unmerited argument, there are some very nice usability enhancements that I like in IE7 over FF, such as giving you several nice options for sorting and switching tabs including the thumbnail view. Not to mention my tip above about adding searching options for any site you choose.
nailPuppy Sep 25th 2007 4:18PM
I prefer to use keywords in firefox, rather than depending on that tiny search box addon. To use it just go to a site, right-click on the text box for a search, and "add a keyword for this site". Type what you want it to be called and what the keyword for it will be. For example in my browser when I type in "thott " it brings up the thottbot result for it. I use the same for wowhead, wowwiki, wiki, imdb, dictionary.com, tv rage, youtube, google, the list goes on.