152311 - Search sidebar should have an acronym lookup

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Ken Harris]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020617
BuildID:    2002061703

Search sidebar can search a couple dozen sites (wow!), but no
acronym lookup, which is one of the most useful, IMHO.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press F9
2. Click the "Search" bar

Actual Results:  No acronym finder.

Expected Results:  (...)

I made a partially-working .src file for acronymfinder.com.
I've never done this before, so helpwanted.  (If you know of
a better acronym search site, I'd be glad to switch; this is
just the one that I usually use because it's easy to remember.)

Comment 1

[Ken Harris]

Attachment: A search plugin for AcronymFinder.com

Comment 2

[Ken Harris]

Attachment: Obligatory AcronymFinder icon for sidebar popup

Comment 3

[Alfonso Martinez]

Maybe you can contribute the plugin here: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/

Comment 4

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

Confirming and reassigning to you (since you have 
already contributed a patch).

But, Alfonso is correct.  This should probably be 
sumbitted to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/

Comment 5

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

heh.  Forgot to do the assignment.
Sorry for the spam.

Comment 6

[Jan Moesen]

I made  a bookmarklet with a custom keyword "acro" for this. I just type in
something like "acro YMMV" in the location bar and hit enter. No need to clutter
the sidebar, I'd think. 

Location: http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=%s
Keyword:  acro
Usage:    acro YOUR_ACRONYM_HERE    (in the location bar)

But why is this bug's status still NEW? Shouldn't it be assigned or even closed?

Comment 7

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

It's hard to impossible to get any new search engine plugins checked in. As it
was mentioned before, go to the mycroft website where you can add them as you
wish. Wontfix.