It’s pretty obvious if you look in the code (less than a hundred lines of code in the whole plugin), but here’s a couple helpful pointers:

1.) To change the search provider, you would change this line in “GoogleSearchChannel.m”:

NSURL *yurl = [NSURL URLWithString: [[NSString stringWithFormat:@”http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%@”, searchCriteria] stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]];

There you can see the URL being used is:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%@

%@ is being replaced with the search term used, so edit this URL as needed for whatever engine you are using.

2.) To change the label inside the search box, you would edit this line in “BrowserWindowController.m”:

[[[_toolbarControllerObj searchField] cell] setPlaceholderString:@”Yahoo!”];

In that line you will see:

“Yahoo!”

You would change that string with whatever you wanted to show up in the search box when a user hasn’t typed anything.

Hope this helps!

-Jeremy

how can i easily change the search engine in the code? Which files do i need to change and with what program?

Also a ‘ restore to google’ package would be very good.
Thanks,
Jeroen

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thanks a lot!
ale

This is caused by not having the latest version of SIMBL installed. I apologize for the lack of appropriate error message, but if you install it then you should be good to go.

Cheers!