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If you are not using Firefox 2.0 yet, you should have a look at Firefox search plugin for Simpy, but if you are an early Firefox 2.0 user, keep reading.

The new Firefox 2.0 extension for Simpy is not the only new thing that came with the recent release of Firefox 2.0. Many, many moons ago Simpy's pages carried the little markup that could tell "intelligent" browsers how Simpy can be searched. Until recently, the main-stream browsers didn't do anything with this information. With Firefox 2.0 release, this finally changed! When a person visits any page Simpy with Firefox 2.0, the browser will automatically discover how Simpy searches are done (i.e. what the format of Simpy's search URL is) and will make it possible for the person to search all public bookmarks on Simpy!

But it doesn't end there! Once you are on Simpy.com, starting a new search is easy. This also lets you to search all Simpy's public bookmarks from within your browser, without having to go to Simpy.com first. With this you are searching people's pre-filtered, tagged, and annotated bookmarks!

How does this work? Via something called Open Search. The screenshot below (click to enlarge) show you how to add "Simpy Search" to your Firefox 2.0 browser.

This shows you how Firefox 2.0 automaticlaly discovered "Simpy Search" and offered you to add it to the list of search engines to search from your Firefox browser. By clicking on the little arrow next to the search box in the top-right of your browser, you will open a menu with "Add Simpy Search" being one of the options.

Once you add "Simpy Search" to your Firefox 2.0 browser, you can search Simpy directly from the browser. The screenshow below shows what the search box looks like when you set Firefox to use Simpy for searching. The little Simpy logo left of the search box shows that you are searching Simpy.