222478 - Option to override text in search bar when using drag and drop

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Gids Goldberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

I often find a word or phrase on a webpage I wish to search for with a site in
my search toolbar. If I highlight the phrase and drag it on the toolbar it can
only go before, in front of, or in between any text that is already there,
meaning I have to edit the search box before doing a search. 
I think a good enhancement would be that, if text is dragged onto the search bar
as it goes over any existing text, that text is highlighted so it will be
replaced if the text is 'dropped' over it. A user could still drop the text
either side of any existing text, but it will make it much easier to do quick
searches in the toolbar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Good RFE. Marking NEW for developer consideration.

Comment 2

[Prognathous]

How about replacing the text if the Alt key is pressed? I would use the Ctrl and
Shift keys for getting the results in a new tab or window (respectively).

Prog.

Comment 3

[Gids Goldberg]

Resolving Fixed as this is dealt with in a different way by Bug 176675.
The issues raised in Comment 2 are in Bug 250074.