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Add Bing to FireFox

As most people know by now: Microsft has launched it’s new search provider bing. I thought I’d give it a try, but when I clicked the link “Add bing to your browser”,FireFox told me it wasn’t supported.

Luckily it’s not that hard to add it anyway, due to the OpenSearchDescription specification.

Just download this file:

And put in your FireFox/searchplugins folder (Program Files\Mozilla FireFox\searchplugins by default on Windows). And voilá, bing is now added to your searchbox:

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Oh, and thanks to Mobobit Software for there online base64 encoder, I used it for the icon.


Posted Mon, Jun 1 2009 12:07 by Stefan Kamphuis
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