Talkings of a Tyrant

SearchPluginHacks is a Firefox extension by the same extension developer as previously reviewed FoxyTunes. As such, the quality of this extension is about as good as FoxyTunes (and that’s a good thing).

SearchPluginHacks is, by far, the simplest extension I’ve reviewed, but it is still very useful. It takes much of the hassle of Firefox’s search box out of the picture.

What SearchPluginHacks does is allow you to delete one of your search engines from inside the browser itself. That’s it. No other features, no flashy lights, nothing except simplicity. It is only 4 kilobytes too!

While this extension comes with about no documentation, it doesn’t really need any. All you do is right-click on the search engine you don’t want, then delete it. That is it.

While Mozilla is trying to (and succeeding at) minimizing what features get installed with Firefox (for good reasons), this feature really should be part of Firefox by default. For most users (anyone who doesn’t want to take a trip to their profile folder), this extension is extremely useful.

Download SearchPluginHacks
Closest thing to an Official Website
Get Firefox 1.5