Closed Bug 338997 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Context search default engine in ver 2.0

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 331105

People

(Reporter: yop, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

In 1.5 I have google as default when selecting any text and right-click search. Regardless of selected search in the searchbox.

This don't happens any more. The right-click search use the latest selected search engine. And this is silly. If for example you select some text and like to search the web for this, and the latest engine selected was "ubuntu package search"

It should be nice to have an option on that, since this mean that you first have to select example google/yahoo,etc . Then do the select text and right-click search
It was easier in 1.5

Reproducible: Always
The reasoning in bug 203959 (which introduced this behavior) indicates that this is what is wanted and that users who don't like this behavior should resort to an extension. Probably WONTFIX.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Preferences → Search
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
actually, this is a dupe.  Turns out this behaviour isn't quite as useful as one would hope, and we're looking at a way of setting the default search engine for the context menu to use.
Whiteboard: DUPEME

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 331105 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: preferences → search
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