How do I save Mycroft plugins?
(I'm posting this here instead of on the Mycroft forum, because AFAICT, there is no Mycroft forum.) In my job, I frequently have to install Firefox on multiple computers for multiple people, and one of my customizations is to add a semi-standardized set of about a dozen different search engines. Currently, the way I do this is to go to mycroftproject.com after installing Firefox on the user's computer, and then run a search there for one of the plugins that the computer's owner needs - a search that typically returns a list of several dozen plugins. Next, I scan the returned list for the specific plugin I'm looking for, click on it, let it install, and start over for the next plugin on the list. Obviously, this wastes both my time and mycroftproject.com's CPU time. I know exactly what it is I want, but can't get to it except by running a search for it. Isn't there a way I could make a custom local collection of plugins that I could refer to without having to involve Mycroft's search function at all?
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Your added search plugins are located in your currently active Firefox profile folder. To find them, you can use the Troubleshooting Information page. Either:
- Help > Troubleshooting Information
- type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter
In the first tab ("Application Basics") click the Show Folder button to open your profile folder, and click into the searchplugins subfolder.
Now... I'm not sure of the easiest way to transfer them to a new installation of Firefox. You could try a USB flash drive or other convenient medium (after copying them to the same location on the new Firefox, exit and restart Firefox to encourage Firefox to discover them) or post them in some cloud storage space and try to install them from there.
Does that help?
> Does that help?
Yes and no. I could do that, but that assumes that the Firefox installation I'm copying them from has all the most current versions of those plugins; plus I'd have to recopy them on a regular basis to keep them up to date for new installations; plus, I think that method might end up more time-consuming than my current one. What I was looking for was something like a way to construct a local copy of the Mycroft results page that listed all the plugins I use, and only those - but that still pointed to the Mycroft copies of those files. That way, I could navigate to that page from the new Firefox installation and just click on each link there to download and install all the latest versions of the plugins from Mycroft directly, without having to search for them on Mycroft each time.
When you click a link on Mycroft, it constructs a new URL to pull the search engine plugin. You could watch the browser console (Ctrl+Shift+j) for those URLs and create links to those to a local page and see whether it works.
