Setup Instructions

This page will help you get your browser set up for use with Queriac. Once you're set up, check out the help page to learn about creating commands and bookmarklets.

Firefox Option A: Add to Location Bar

  1. Open Firefox and type about:config in the address bar. You may get a warning about being careful. That's fine. Carry on. This will open up a big list of browser preferences.

  2. In the filter field, type keyword . This should filter the list down to just a couple of items.

  3. Make sure keyword.enabled is set to true.

  4. Set keyword.URL to

    http://queri.ac/youraccountname , using your account name of course. Don't forget the trailing slash!
  5. That's it. Visit your account page at http://queri.ac/youraccountname to start adding commands.

Chrome

Coming soon!

Safari 3+ on Mac OS X

Apple is in bed with Google in terms of the Safari search bar, so configuring Safari for Queriac requires a little finagling, but it's still pretty easy. You'll need to install Keywurl, a free SIMBL plugin that lets you customize Safari's address bar.

  1. Download and install Keywurl. You may have to download and install SIMBL too.
  2. Once Keywurl is installed open up Safari's preferences and click Keywurl

  3. Delete all of Keywurl's pre-installed keywords, except for default. You won't be needing them.

  4. Edit the default keyword, and paste the following: - if logged_in? %code= user_home_url(current_user) + "/$$$" - else %code= user_home_url('youraccountname') + "/$$$" , using your account name of course.

Camino Option A: Add to Location Bar

  1. Open Camino and type about:config in the address bar. You may get a warning about being careful. That's fine. Carry on. This will open up a big list of browser preferences.

  2. In the filter field, type keyword . This should filter the list down to just a couple of items.

  3. Make sure keyword.enabled is set to true.

  4. Set keyword.URL to

    http://queri.ac/youraccountname , using your account name of course. Don't forget the trailing slash!
  5. That's it. Visit your account page at http://queri.ac/youraccountname to start adding commands.

Internet Explorer 8

Coming soon!

Internet Explorer 7

Microsoft provides a website with a nice little form for adding search providers. Installing Queriac is just a matter of copy and paste..

  1. Copy the following text (including the TEST part): http://queri.ac/youraccountname/TEST , using your account name of course.
  2. Visit Microsoft's Add Search Providers to Internet Explorer page and paste the URL you just copied into the form.
  3. Note: You may get a warning saying that your default search will be "switched away from Google" (Side Note: I wonder how much Google paid Microsoft for that alert.. More on that here). Anyway, do this:
  4. Ie_opensearch_changed_from_google

Internet Explorer 6

Coming soon!

Opera (All recent versions)

In the days before Firefox, Opera was the cool kid's browser, with lots of innovative features that were ahead their time. In fact, Opera may have been the first browser to featured the keyworded search concepts that make Queriac possible! Anyhow, the following instructions are for Opera 9, but the process is probably about the same for older versions..

  1. Open Opera's preferences and click on 'Search'.
  2. Add a new search and fill it out like the screenshot below (using your username instead of 'zeke').
  3. Note: You should probably delete the other searches in the list so they don't conflict with the keywords of your Queriac commands. Opera_opensearch