Installing and using the BioMed Central Firefox search plugin
Firefox is
an open source web browser that is rapidly gaining popularity thanks
to its fast performance, tabbed browsing, extensive standards support,
and perhaps most of all, its increased security compared to Internet
Explorer.
The BioMed Central search plugin for Firefox adds BioMed Central to the list of search engines that are available in the quick search box at the top right of every Firefox browser window. Installing the the plugin takes only seconds - see below for details.
Supported
browsers
Supported
platforms
- Any platform
supported by Firefox (e.g. Linux, other UNIXs, Mac OS
X, Windows NT/98/2000/XP)
How to install
the BioMed Central Firefox search plugin
If you do not
already have Firefox installed, download
it here. To install
the BioMed Central search plugin in Firefox, make sure that you are using
Firefox as your browser, and then follow this link: Install
BioMed Central search plugin. That's it - you're done! Click on the search
box at the top right to select the search engine you wish to use.
Google
Scholar Firefox search plugin - New!
We've also created a Firefox search plugin for Google Scholar. Google Scholar is a new search engine from Google which indexes and citation-links a vast number of scholarly research articles, including all articles published by BioMed Central.
Install Google Scholar search plugin.
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