o.k. went through the whole process as you described, elastic thread here is the result:
1. tried ensuring that crackberry was bookmarked in Safari - it was and so was the Safari plug-in as well as the FireFox plug-in. Created the trigger - Nope, it didn't work!! 2. did a step-by-step for the "one more thing to try": checked to see if the web search plug-in was there. it was, (and also in Catalog) and tried the set up as you described anyway. Didn't work. Then removed that web search plug-in and added it again, also adding into Catalog/Cuystom as you described. Did the rescan etc.....typed "." and crack in the 1st pane, "find with" in the 2nd etc..... turned off the iMac and didn't reboot back on until today at 5:00 p.m. Guess what??? The trigger for Crackberry .com held!!!! whoppie!!! 3. Now the biggest question I have, is this process what I will have to do each time I want to set up a trigger for a web page/URL????? a) and would they always have to be bookmarked in Safari first - instead of Firefox? b) If so, why did it work? Is there something I should/should not have in my set up for QS? c) Why wouldn't it work without going through this pretty involved process? d)) if the answer to #3 question here is "yes" - what a PITA!!! ;) 4. Surely QS URL triggers can't be this difficult for everyone or nobody would continue to use it.... so am asking you for an explanation as to what you think is the reason why/why not I would have to go through this for another URL? I DO really thank you so much for the help, the step-by-step process and your interest.....appreciate your time and effort to stop me from totally tearing my poor hair out further..... Awaiting your answer......and again, many, many thanks, tuni On Apr 26, 4:47 pm, Elastic Threads <elasticthre...@gmail.com> wrote: > My best guess is that the crackberry url is not in your QS catalog. > There's a few ways you'd have it in your catalog, most typically by > having crackberry bookmarked in Safari (pretty sure it has to be > Safari, whether or not you use it to browse the web, open it once, > bookmark the crackberry site, and quit it), AND having the Safari QS > plug-in installed. > > If do not already have a Safari bookmark of the site and the plug-in > installed: Try and make the bookmark, install the plug-in, restart QS, > and then make the trigger and see if that works. > > If it doesn't work there's one more thing to try: > > Which is to use the web search plug-in and set upwww.crackberry.com > as a "web search" (even though we're just opening the URL and not > searching). > Do this by opening QS prefs, > Go to plug-ins and install the web-search plug-in if you don't already > have it installed > Click the Catalog tab at the top of the prefs window > Select the Custom section of the Catalog in the list on the left > Click the plus button at the bottom of the window and select Web > Search List > The info inspector drawer should pop open on the right and you should > see an empty web search source list > Click the plus button at the bottom of the source list > double click in the name field of the new web search and type > "crackberry" (or whatever" > double click in the url field and type "qss-http://www.crackberry.com"; (the > "qss-" is important) > click the rescan catalog button at the bottom of the prefs window > (looks like a reload web page icon in Safari) > Quit and Restart QS > Make the following trigger: > after hitting the plus button to make a new trigger in QS prefs / > triggers > type a "." in the first pane of the trigger set up to make it a text > entry field > type "crack" > tab down to the second pane and type "Find With..." > tab down to a third pane and type "crackberry" to bring up the new > "search engine" you created in your catalog > save and set up a trigger key combination. > try that out. > > -- > Subscription > settings:http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver/subscribe?hl=en
