Closed
Bug 29871
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
Custom searches via Addressbar
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: Search, enhancement, P3)
SeaMonkey
Search
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: bart, Assigned: mozilla)
Details
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•25 years ago
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moving to search component
Assignee: cbegle → matt
Component: Browser-General → Search
QA Contact: asadotzler → claudius
Comment 2•25 years ago
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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)
Assignee: matt → rjc
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Comment 3•24 years ago
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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
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 4•24 years ago
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nice feature. verified with the 2000040509 builds
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Comment 5•24 years ago
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ooohh, I'm going to set it up to take bugzilla bug #s :)
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → SeaMonkey
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