1128573 - Don't return XUL/Firefox-internal results in default search

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Potch]

What feature should be changed? Please provide the URL of the feature if possible.
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The global search bar

What problems would this solve?
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Confusion over web developers finding docs for APIs internal to firefox or not compatible with other browsers

Who would use this?
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The vast majority of users who come to MDN for Web API reference.

What would users see?
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Same search results interface, but with less useful results filtered out

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Users looking for XUL/internals information can check a box in the results. Searches performed from a zone specific to a XUL/Mozilla perspective could return these results by default.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

What I think we ought to do here is to default searches to including only open Web materials, but have, underneath the search box, a little checkbox you can toggle to expand this to all content including Gecko specific, add-on, etc stuff.

This is another item that ideally would eventually become part of a user's MDN wiki preferences.

Comment 2

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

+1. Sheppy's proposed solution sounds fantastic. This will really improve the signal-to-noise ratio for the typical web developer.

Comment 3

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

It seems like this is fixed already