[Dixielandjazz] Specific searches - using firefox.

[rwade1947 at comcast.net]

For the record, Firefox is also available for the Mac. I've been using it on my eMac and my Intel iMac for quite some time now. 

Roger Wade
Really Old Records


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Craig I. Johnson" <civanj at roadrunner.com>
> Bill Haesler wrote about google search:
> 
> Fewer links to downloadable sites for sheet music, lyrics, jazz biogs,
> > articles and the like...
> 
> Another possible solution is to use Firefox as a browser and to install
> the Roll Your Own search engine http://www.rollyo.com/firefoxsearch.html
> , which allows you to search up to 25 specific sites in one
> search, e.g. create a search for jazz biogs, a search for sheet music, a search 
> for
> audio files -- each one containing a list of the sites wherein you might expect 
> to have
> the best luck (e.g., include all the sites that comprise lists of the specific 
> recording
> companies, brunswick, columbia, okeh, victor etc. and use that to find specific
> songs or artists recordings.  - or one site searches e.g. wikipedia.
>  -- you can create several of these specific site or site-group searches and 
> they will show
> up as buttons on your browser tool bar.
> 
> There are also a list of other search add-ons for firefox. Go to the Firefox 
> site and
> search for add-ons then search for "search" on the add-on search page.
> 
> 
> Firefox runs in Windows, OSX and Linux operating systems
> 
> Firefox also allows you to set up access to a large number of formal search 
> engines 
> like, google, altavista, a9, yahoo search etc. on your tool bar.
> see: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search-engines/ for a list of these.
> 
> Craig Johnson