1479689 - API search get filter webextensions

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[:hellosct1]

Attachment: WebExtension for the list the search engines

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0
Build ID: 20180730221422

Steps to reproduce:

I want to get the list of search engines I checked off 

I chose in the preferences search tab some search engines (picture : 1-select-checked.png)
and I want to get the filtered result (picture : 2-results-checked.png)


Actual results:

I developed an example for the MDN documentation of the search.get() API (file : search-list.7z)
and I get the result (picture : 3-results-full.png)


Expected results:

I would like an additional argument in this API to display the search engines I selected to get this representation (picture : 2-results-checked.png)

Can be an extra argument in this feature or a new feature

Comment 1

[:hellosct1]

Attachment: The search engines are checked -> 1-select-checked.png

Comment 2

[:hellosct1]

Attachment: the results checked -> 2-results-checked.png

Comment 3

[:hellosct1]

Attachment: currently the result -> 3-results-full.png

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

What an incredibly hidden piece of UI.

I've used Firefox forever and didn't know about that.

I'll see if I can figure out a nice way to incorporate that.

Comment 5

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

@mkaply you might want to verify the long term support of that ui before making any plans. e.g. if we make all search engines webextensions, is that UI necessary at all?

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk move of bugs per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1483958

Comment 7

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

On thinking about this further, those checkboxes are specifically about whether or not engines appear in one off searches.

As a matter of fact, the preference is called browser.search.hiddenOneOffs.

So this isn't something that needs to be exposed via WebExtensions.

If you don't want a search engine to show up anywhere, you should hide it, not use the checkbox.