Friday, March 26, 2010

Spotlight notes, and indexing with FireFox

Spotlight is useful for indexing files on disk,
emails, calendar events, looking up words in dictionary,
people info from addressbook.

But it doesn't index web pages you've seen. Unless you use safari.
I like safari except for two things:
  1. no plugins or addons, like sxipper or adblock
  2. something else, don't remember. maybe I'll start using it again. for some things.
.. will edit more later. some link on this topic:

does index not even the cache?
do I need a proxy? eg, muffin, save to disk and do indexing on that.


some links:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=dw&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=os+x+spotlight+firefox&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html
http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/spotlight-tips.html

forum discussion on ffox bookmarks:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050825165843574
http://web.archive.org/web/20051231031800/homepage.mac.com/mikemunson/firefox/

.. I will look in to this more later.

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