Mycroft project

The open source Mycroft project created Mycroft, which provides a collection of search plugins for Mozilla-based web browsers. Mycroft is named for Mycroft Holmes, the fictional older and smarter brother of Sherlock Holmes, as a reference to Mycroft being more or less an extended version of Apple Computer's Sherlock search technology.

Browser Compatibility

Mycroft is compatible with the following:

• Netscape 7
• Mozilla
• Mozilla Firefox
• Beonex Communicator

A search plug-in provides the ability to access a search engine (or other websites, e.g. Wikipedia) from a web browser, without having to go to its website first.

Technically, a search plug-in is a small text file that 'tells' a computer what information to send to a search engine and how the results are to be retrieved.

See also

• Search engine

External links

• The Mycroft Project at mozdev.org
• The Top-10 Mycroft plug-ins
• The Mycroft Project's Wikipedia plugins

See also: Mycroft project, Apple Computer, Beonex Communicator, Computer software, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mycroft Holmes, Netscape Navigator, Open source