{"id":424,"date":"2010-05-23T01:09:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T23:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.blackdown.de\/?p=424"},"modified":"2016-10-29T03:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T01:50:59","slug":"google-ssl-search-plug-in-for-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackdown.de\/articles\/google-ssl-search-plug-in-for-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Google SSL Search Plug-In for Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of today Google finally supports searching over SSL.  Expectedly, you can use it via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/\"><strong>https<\/strong>:\/\/www.google.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox&#8217;s built-in search capabilities still use the unencrypted search, though.  To remedy this I built an OpenSearch plug-in which makes Firefox use the HTTPS-based search: <\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">function install() { window.external.AddSearchProvider('http:\/\/blog.blackdown.de\/static\/google-ssl.xml'); }<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"buttonbar\">\n<a class=\"buttonpositive\" href=\"javascript:install()\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCAAJAJEAAP\/\/\/3OqIf\/\/\/wAAACH5BAEHAAIALAAAAAAIAAkAAAIRlBOmArDWFApttotzhO7t9RUAOw==\" width=\"8\" height=\"9\"\/><span>Install Google Secure Search Plug-In<\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>(Read more about Google&#8217;s SSL Search <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/websearch\/bin\/answer.py?answer=173733&#038;hl=en\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of today Google finally supports searching over SSL. Expectedly, you can use it via https:\/\/www.google.com\/. 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