1155636 - Instant drag-and-drop searching should have been retained for users with browser.search.showOneOffButtons set to False

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Eric Prindle]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150402191859

Steps to reproduce:

(I am not sure whether this qualifies as a bug, but the comments on bug 1111947 suggest that users can submit bugs to identify ways to polish the behavior, so that is what I am doing.)

I highlighted text and dragged and dropped it into the search bar.


Actual results:

The search bar dropdown opened.


Expected results:

The text should have been submitted to my default search engine (previous behavior).

The stated reason for removing this feature is that the name of the current search engine no longer displays in the search bar. However, the search engine name still displays for users with browser.search.showOneOffButtons set to False, so the feature should not have been removed in that case.

Comment 1

[mergilmartin]

I can duplicate this behavior. Firefox Nightly (40.0a1 (2015-05-09))
1. Highlighted text and dragged and dropped it to the searchbox
2. The searchbox dropdown opened. No search occured.

Comment 2

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

browser.search.showOneOffButtons should be removed soon in bug 1119250, so this bug as phrased here is wontfix.

Possible ways forward if you want this feature:
- make it work as an add-on.
- add an about:config preference that would let advanced users revert the behavior change we made in bug 1111947. I'm generally not in favor of adding plenty of new prefs, but I would probably accept a patch adding this one.