1388703 - Make dropping a keyword search matching string on the tab bar perform the keyword search (in a new tab)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P5)

Description

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

STR:
- have a keyword searches defined, such as bug %s -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=%s
- drop a text, e.g. from an email, "bug 12345" on the tab bar (a little arrow shows before releasing the mouse button) 

Expected: should open a new tab and go to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12345

Actual: it opens a new tab and searches for "bug 12345" via the default search engine.


This is a specific feature of now retired TreeStyleTab extension.  I so much got used to it that I believe it would be good to have it natively in Firefox.

Comment 1

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

This actually works.  The way to enforce going through the keyword search filter is to drop the text on the [+] button in the address bar, and not just drop after the last or somewhere between two tabs (while the little arrow appears, what start the default search engine search)

WFM!