142262 - Searching from the address bar: more versitile

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[David Johnson]

I think that the following enhancements to the way that Mozilla handles
searching from the address bar would be beneficial:

1. Users should be able to choose which search engines they wish to be displayed
in the drop-down search feature; i.e. Instead of just "Search Google for..."
being displayed, a user-definable selection of available search engines should
be displayed (definable from Preferences).

2. Not as important as 1, but I would like to be able to search rpmfind.net.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

it is already pretty versatile, using customized keywords - see bug 29871

Comment 2

[David Johnson]

Yeah, but it's not really very user/non-techie friendly is it....

In any case, is there any chance of having rpmfind.net added as a search option?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Confirming; we can add whatever options we want there... the expectation is that
anyone distributing the browser will nuke that list and fill in search engines
relevant to _their_ target audience.

Comment 4

[David Johnson]

OK, that's fair enough - unless you want to download a build direct from
mozilla.org without third-party stuff.
How about the possibility of the user adding search options (without compiling
from source)?

I ain't no developer, so sorry if I don't know the ins and outs of how the
browser works... I just use it.

Comment 5

[Samir Gehani]

helpwanted

Comment 6

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

To point number 2 of Comment 0, rpmfind has been requested in bug 126089.
There's a plugin available at mycroft http://mycroft.mozdev.org/

Comment 7

[Mark James]

I'd like Mozilla to automatically do a search rather than a URL lookup if the
string typed in the address bar begins with a double quote (") character.  So
many times I've just pressed enter on a search term, forgetting to tab to the
Google search option, and Mozilla has gone and treated the search term as a URL.

Comment 8

[David Johnson]

Closing this ancient bug: Firefox does everything I asked for :-)

Comment 9

[Jason Bassford]

No reference to any specific bug / patch that fixed this.

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