Earlier today we deployed a new feature on addoursearch.com that automatically searches for and installs your site’s favicon into FireFox search plugin menus. (see example image at the bottom of this post)

This feature will automatically search the root directory of your site for either favicon.ico or favicon.png and if found, will add that icon to your visitors browser search plugin menu.

Our installation page has already been upgraded with this feature, so existing users of our Browser Search Plugin Widgets will not need to re-create their widget.

To ensure that new and existing widget users can take advantage of this service, please adhere to the following requirements:

Search Icon Auto-Discovery Requirements:

• File type: .png or .ico image formats
• File Dimensions: 16×16 pixels
• File Name: favicon
• File Location: In the root directory of your site.
  (ex: www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico)

We will be adding support for custom icon locations and names in the near future.

*NOTE: Internet Explorer DOES NOT support icons in their browser search menu.  So this feature will only work in FireFox and Flock Browsers.