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Firefox has a pantload of cool features, not the least cool of which is the multi-engine search tool. If you live in Canada though, you may be a bit weary of getting your eBay search results in $US. It just occurred to me that there must be a simple way to revise that plugin to automatically search eBay.ca, and there is.

Select the Firefox application in the Finder, right/control-click to get the contextual menu and select “Show Package Contents” (or use the pull-down advanced tools menu from the sprocket icon in the finder window toolbar). I find it easiest to switch to column view at this point. Navigate to Contents/MacOS/searchplugins/eBay.src and open this file in a text editor. Now it’s just a matter of looking for the URL, which you’ll see on the fourth line:

action="http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll"

Now change that to read:

action="http://search.ebay.ca/search/search.dll"

Save that file, restart Firefox and viola. Search to your heart’s content à la canadienne.

I’m kind of sorry that the SmartCard never caught on, and not just because it’s the only way to upgrade the firmware on the Motif ES (which probably won’t be getting any more firmware upgrades now that the XS has been released). I recently found the one that I borrowed indefinitely for the aforementioned purpose in the bottom of the washing machine as I was transferring clothes to the dryer. I just reformatted it and it seems to be working fine.