I've written a tiny search plugin for Firefox which puts a Fedora Tracker (http://fedoratracker.org/) search as an option on the toolbar. (If you're not familiar with Fedora Tracker: it indexes well-known 3rd-party packages for Fedora, plus Fedora Core and Extras.) Currently, this has to be installed systemwide -- there's no per-user way to add search plugins. This means it'd be nice to have it in the RPM to start. Plus, search plugins can't really take options, so each release (and each arch) could be made to default to searching the current Fedora Core release area (and the area for the correct architecture). Download from: http://www.mattdm.org/misc/fedoratracker/ and put both files into /usr/lib/firefox-###/searchplugins/
Can you confirm that this works with FC4 Firefox? If so I'll ask caillon if he can add it to the next build. EasyFix this is.
Now, fedora tracker links to 3rd party sites that are not entirely 100% good in a legal standing... It would be great for users, but does it provide any legal implicaiton if we ship it by default?
Well, we ship the google plugin
I don't have an FC4 test machine handy, but I have confirmed that it works with firefox 1.0.4. The search plugins are just simple XML-ish files, so there's very little to break. One thing to note is that the plugin has to specify a specific FC version to search. I'll attach a patch to fedoratracker.src that causes it to search fc4 repositories (for now this will cause a brief "no such table" error to flash when searching tracker) but it's really just a matter of changing the input name="repoVersion" tag to have a value of "4".
Created attachment 114678 [details] patch for fedoratracker.src that causes it to search fc4 repos
Sorry, but per-user search plugins are long time supported. Moreover, when installing this search plugin manually into ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/searchplugins, I found that fedoratracker.org has broken search anyway.