{"id":1740,"date":"2008-06-26T20:57:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2011-07-28T18:07:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T15:07:49","slug":"replacing-google-with-scroogle-using-firefox-and-greasemonkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2008\/06\/26\/replacing-google-with-scroogle-using-firefox-and-greasemonkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing Google with Scroogle using Firefox and Greasemonkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, grab this <a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/23529\">userscript to use GET over SSL<\/a> when <a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.scroogle.org\/\">Scroogling<\/a>. I can&#8217;t claim to fully understand what it does but it sure does sound secure. (Isn&#8217;t that comforting? Hey, at least I&#8217;m not giving you a false sense of security by claiming to know better than I really do.)<\/p>\n<p>Next, pick up <a href='http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/files\/2008\/06\/scroogle-with.xpi'>Scroogle With<\/a>, an extension I hacked to replace Google with Scroogle when using the context menu&#8217;s Search With option. I don&#8217;t know if <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffwinkler.net\/2006\/08\/11\/firefox-search-plugins-scroogle-pythondocs-javablogs\/\">installing Scroogle as Firefox&#8217;s search engine<\/a> would do the same, but my extension has the added feature of <a href=\"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=1232\">working with text boxes<\/a>. I don&#8217;t use the built-in search box that Firefox has. If you do, you might want to install Scroogle there too.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, install this <a href='http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/files\/2008\/06\/scroogle_language_links.user_.js'>userscript to skip between languages<\/a> in Scroogle results pages. This isn&#8217;t really necessary, it&#8217;s just a convenience for us who&#8217;d like Google results in languages other than English from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>So you see, the path to security here is through installing a bunch of software from unknown sources! (Just kidding of course. Since the code is out in the open, you&#8217;re free to audit it personally any time you like.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, grab this userscript to use GET over SSL when Scroogling. I can&#8217;t claim to fully understand what it does but it sure does sound secure. (Isn&#8217;t that comforting? Hey, at least I&#8217;m not giving you a false sense of security by claiming to know better than I really do.) Next, pick up Scroogle With, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}