Software engineering/opensource project: Intranet database search utility

Title:

The Creation of a Firefox Extension to search the Intranet Database

Objective:

The objective of this project is to create an extension for Mozilla Firefox that 
searches the Intranet database from the search location for Google, 
dictionary.com, or other engines that you add.

Justification:

This project should be done becuase it would be very useful. Currently, if one 
wants to do something as simple as find out what their friend is doing for 8th 
period the next day, they have to go to the intranet website, login, then go to 
the search input and search. With the extension, you could just type your 
search string into the same place that searches google, dictionary.com, and 
other places and it would perform the search for you.

Description:

The objective will be accomplished by first finding out how to create an extension 
for firefox, particularly for the search bar. The next step would be to talk to the 
people in charge of the Intranet to find out how that works. Once that is done, 
the extension would be created, with Firefox storing your username and password 
from the extension.

Limitations:

The limitations would include the storing of the username and password in Firefox. 
This could be a security breach, and it would also prove problematic for households 
with more than one TJ student. Another problem would be the distribution of the 
extension, and the fact that it wouldn't reach all TJ students since not very many 
people use firefox.