1041754 - Add ability to search individual sites through the Awesome Bar.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 782557

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Sevaan Franks [:sevaan]]

Attachment: Mockup showing search-other-site functionality

Currently a user can type search terms into the Awesome Bar which takes them to a results page on their default search engine's site.

Sometimes, however, users may want to search a specific site, such as Amazon.com.

This bug is about enabling users to do that in the Awesome Bar.

By typing a domain + a space + search query, the Awesome Bar's "searching for" row text will change to: Searching <Domain> for <Search Term(s)>

The Identity block will also change to reflect the domain that is being searched.

The user can exit site search by pressing the delete key after their search term/phrase is deleted.

If a user as a prior entry in their history related to a search on the user-selected domain, that will be listed as a result under the search suggestions.

Comment 1

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

Some clarification: this is not the same as search keywords.

Putting »amazon.com firefox« into the awesomebar and pressing enter will expand to »site:amazon.com firefox« in your default search provider.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

might depend on bug 951624 but there's no reason this should block it, unless I'm missing something.  Sounds more like an enhancement to build on top of that.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Will we no longer show results from history for that domain? That seems counterintuitive...

For instance, I regularly visit: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/

The easiest way for me to get there is to type "ftp.mozilla.org nightly".

The mockup here doesn't let me do that - it'd take me to a <searchengine> search for "site:mozilla.org nightly" which is not what I want (and likely won't have this result).

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I think this is only about the first row of the autocomplete that will be "special" preselected, you can still go down and use the first history result. I think the mock-up is missing the next entries there

Comment 5

[Sevaan Franks [:sevaan]]

Marco is right, the next entries are missing from the mockup. Thanks for calling attention to it.

Comment 6

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Bug 951624 has been broken down, so we have some more specific dependencies here:
* bug 1065265 and bug 1065303 for the general infrastructure needed for this (both near landing)
* bug 1054914 to allow hitting delete