1608170 - Change behavior of address bar one-off searches to work like search shortcuts

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Verdi [:verdi] Best to slack me]

Currently the one-off searches in the address bar execute the search when you click them. We'd like to change the behavior so that clicking them adds the @keyword to the address bar and displays search engine specific search suggestions if available. This should be for the address bar only and not the search bar.

Comment 1

[Harry Twyford]

Verdi, how should this behave with search engines for which we don't know the @keyword? For example, if someone adds a search engine with OpenSearch (like one of the IMdB search engines here). We don't have an @keyword for any of those engines, but it still appears among the one-offs once added.

My feeling is that this might require update 2 work, but maybe there's a workaround.

Comment 2

[Verdi [:verdi] Best to slack me]

mconnor and I just talked this through and we agree with you Harry - there's too much here and it's all better addressed in update 2.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

It sounds like this was early design of what became search mode.