1262543 - Offer ability to remember user's preferred search filters

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

What feature should be changed? Please provide the URL of the feature if possible.
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Different developers have different search requirements. Add-on devs need add-ons enabled by default in search filters. Firefox developers need XPCOM enabled. And so forth. We need a way for users to set their default search filters; requiring them to manually adjust them for every. single. search. is just cruel.

What problems would this solve?
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Ease of use. Plus it will keep our users from going insane.

Who would use this?
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All users who do search and don't want to go insane.

What would users see?
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Depends on implementation. Either we remember the last-used filters automatically, or offer a "use as default" button.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Avoid searches that don't make sense by remembering their needed filters.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

Technically possible, could be stored in local storage as needed.  A bookmark should work as an interim solution.

Comment 2

[V@no]

And what's wrong with cookies?

Comment 3

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