Closed Bug 253457 Opened 20 years ago Closed 15 years ago

clicking a bookmark with %s (keyword query) should prompt for parameter

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 185099

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

References

Details

Current plan is to have a dialog appear that briefly explains what bookmarks
keywords are and offers a field to type in the search term, so quick searches
aren't so useless from the menu.
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0+
Maybe it would be better to leave this as a geek feature and not have default
keyworded search bookmarks. I think it's worth considering the solution of
removing the problem UI rather than adding on to it.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

Seems as if default keyworded search bookmarks are gone with 1.0pr, along with
all other default bookmarks. I don't mind too much, but I know I've told quite a
few of my relatively computer literate friends about 'dict' and they love it.
Is/was there a reason to remove all the default bookmarks?

As for having a dialog appear, I assume you mean having a menu option which
would have this pop up, like the "Promote Firefox" option under the Help menu. I
personally think this is a good idea. Nongeeks aren't going to root around in
menus much, but the more curious users would love finding the keywords function,
I think.
Not a "blocker"
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0+ → blocking-aviary1.0-
See also bug 175419, same bug for Seamonkey.

See also bug 306221, an alternate solution: "Same keyword for search and
non-search bookmarks not possible; should be".
Summary: Improve Bookmarks Keywords functionality from the menu → clicking a bookmark with %s (keyword query) should prompt for parameter
*** Bug 308119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 308119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
See also bug 261175 for related proposals regarding improving keyword search UI.
Assignee: bross2 → nobody
Severity: normal → enhancement
OS: Windows XP → All
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
Hardware: PC → All
Seems to me that bug 306221 isn't an alternate solution, but part of this one. Otherwise all bookmarks with keywords could automatically go to the site (minus the trailing search options) - eg. clicking http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s;s=all would go to http://www.imdb.com/.
Sorry for the bugspam, just found the "otherwise" alternative I mentioned, is bug 298697.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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