29871 - Custom searches via Addressbar

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Search, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Bart Szyszka]

MSIE 4.0 and up with the QuickSearch add-on (comes with Browser Enhancements 
option for MSIE5 I believe) has a feature that I absolutely can't live with 
out. Basically, what it lets you do is add custom searching capabilities to the 
Address bar.

What I do is assign a 2-3 letter combination for a search. For example, I 
did 'goo' for the Google.com search. Then you enter the URL with %s where you 
want the keywords to be plugged in. For Google, I have:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

So when I type the following in the address bar:
goo Mozilla Project

It will load this URL:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Mozilla Project

(it'll also convert the space to %20 too)

This is extremely useful because all I have to do is figure out how a search 
engine organizes its search string and I can add anything to the Address bar 
for easy searching.

For the W3C Validator, I have this with a w3 assigned to it:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=%s&ss=

And all I have to do is add a w3 in front of an URL to have it be validated.

For Dictionary.com, I have:
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=%s

And then all I need to do is type:
dc A_WORD_I_DO_NOT_KNOW

in the Address bar to find a word quickly. This feature should be extremely 
easy to add, so I'm crossing my fingures that you'll add it. At least the 
ability to have this feature and add more searches by editing a text file if it 
would be too time-consuming to add a dialog box for easily adding new entries. 
Please consider adding this as Microsoft doesn't seem to have any interest to 
develop MSIE for Linux while I'm loosing interest in Windows.

* Thanks

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

moving to search component

Comment 2

[Claudius Gayle]

over to rjc. I know our search is already way better but there is some interesting stuff here that you might consider(if you haven't 
already)

Comment 3

[Robert John Churchill]

You can now bookmark a URL with "%s" in it, such as:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
and then assign it a "Custom Keyword", such as:
    goo
and they you'll be able to type into the location bar such as:
    goo Mozilla Project
which will resolve to:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=Mozilla%20Project

Comment 4

[Claudius Gayle]

nice feature. verified with the 2000040509 builds

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

ooohh, I'm going to set it up to take bugzilla bug #s :)