On Thursday 16 Jan 2003 10:17 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:40:44PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 16 Jan 2003 8:03 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:48:29PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > At some point in the last week or so I seem to have lost the ability > > > > to save a search in Mozilla/Netscape. I've had a good browse through > > > > Preferences, looking for something that I may have changed, but I > > > > can't find the reason. Can anyone point me at the solution? > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > Anne, it's not you, but probably the form you're using for the search > > > uses the post method instead of get, making the results page not > > > bookmarkable. I use a bookmarklet which will convert post forms to get > > > forms. Just go to the page with the form, click the bookmarklet, do > > > your search and voila! Get it here: > > > http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#frmget > > > > I'm sure it would help, if I could make any sense of it. I got to the > > page OK, but when I clicked on the green link I got 'Changed 0 forms to > > use WGET method'. I don't understand what's happening. I assume I need > > to download a plugin, or something, which is frmget so that it can be > > used with my browsers? I don't see how to do that. > > > > > > Anne > > Sorry, drag the frmget link to your personal toolbar in Mozilla. That's > all you have to do. If you don't use that toolbar, you can right-click > the link and do a bookmark from there. > > Now, go to the page you want to search from. Click the link in your > toolbar (or from bookmarks) and you'll get a js alert telling you it > changed x number of forms. Do your search and the results page will be > bookmarkable. > > If that's still Greek, scoll up the page on the link above and there > briefer instructions. > Well, I got a bookmark thing on my personal toolbar OK. Hovering over it shows a javascript link, but clicking on it doesn't seem to do anything. I do wonder, though, whether this is really what I need? I'm looking for something that would enable me to save the resulting list of links from a Google search. It used to be simple in Mozilla, though I can't remember whether there was a button, or whether it was a right-click option.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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