OpenSearch: How to add Search Engine on FireFox 2

hi,
let’s think you have a web site, which provides lot of information. you have searching feature for your visitor…
do you want to add your Search engine on your visitor’s FireFox browser?

hope you surely want…

STEP 1:
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(#) File: osd.xml

<OpenSearchDescription xmlns=”http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/”>
<ShortName>swi issue tracker</ShortName>
<Description>somewhere in… issue tracker</Description>
<Contact>hasan@somewherein.net</Contact>
<Url type=”text/html” method=”get” template=”http://www.somewherein.net/issues/view.php?id={searchTerms}”>
</Url>
<LongName>somewhere in… issue tracker</LongName>

<Image height=”32″ width=”32″ type=”image/vnd.microsoft.icon”>http://hasan.we4tech.com/issuetracker.ico</Image>
<Image height=”16″ width=”16″ type=”image/png”>http://hasan.we4tech.com/issuetracker.png</Image>
<Image height=”16″ width=”16″ type=”image/vnd.microsoft.icon”>http://hasan.we4tech.com/issuetracker.ico</Image>
<Query role=”example” searchTerms=”issuetracker”/>
<Developer>nhm tanveer hossain khan (hasan)</Developer>
<Attribution>
Search data © 2006, somewhere in…, No Rights Reserved.
</Attribution>

<SyndicationRight>open</SyndicationRight>
<AdultContent>false</AdultContent>
<Language>en-us</Language>
<OutputEncoding>UTF-8</OutputEncoding>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
</OpenSearchDescription>

STEP 2:
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add the following code in your HTML > Head tag block

<link title=”Somewhere in… Issue tracker Search” type=”application/opensearchdescription+xml” rel=”search” />

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