Make Firefox search plug-ins convert string to lower case

[CujoRbd]

I wanted Firefox to take what I put into the search bar and make it lowercase before sending it to the search engine.

I do this because one of the search engines I point to is case-sensitive, although all of the queries I send will only return a value if the query is all lower-case. It's an odd database system, but unfortunately I don't have admin access to modify it myself.

Note that I am using Firefox 2, but this should also be applicable to FF3. I'll update if the instructions are too different.

I did accomplished this by modifying the following chrome component:

file: <APPLICATION FOLDER>\chrome\browser.jar\content\browser\search\ search.xml

*NOTE: Replace "<APPLICATION FOLDER>" with the path to Firefox's installation.

method: handleSearchCommand
change from: [var textValue = textBox.value;]
change to: [var textValue = textBox.value.toLowerCase();]


Let me know if you have any feedback... I just wanted to share this since I found it useful.

[CujoRbd]

I made it slightly more intellgent:

file: <APPLICATION FOLDER>\chrome\browser.jar\content\browser\search\ search.xml

*NOTE: Replace "<APPLICATION FOLDER>" with the path to Firefox's installation.

method: handleSearchCommand
change from: [var textValue = textBox.value;]
change to: [var textValue = textBox.value.replace("KB","kb");
textValue = textValue.replace("TN","tn");]

This just basically replaces instance of the specific letters that I know will always be lower-case in the database; I noted a few entries (migrated from an old database) that DID make use of upper-case letters, so that's why I use this method now.