1700129 - Add Context Search function to Firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1136131

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Worcester12345]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0

Steps to reproduce:

Try to use Context Search function

Actual results:

Does not work (programming changes broke the ContextSearch extension)

Expected results:

Search by clicking on a word, and pop up your choice of search engines.

Comment 1

[Worcester12345]

Would like to see the addon creators of the two ContextSearch versions be able to start adding their code directly to Firefox.

This can be the main bug for that, and separate smaller bugs can be marked as blocking this one as different parts of code are worked on or are being added.

Thank you.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'WebExtensions::Untriaged' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Ben Basson]

I decided some time ago to stop using Firefox and to cease participation in Firefox add-on development, so please leave me out of the discussion.

You can do what you want with my source code (it's available and MPL tri-licenced), but a direct in-browser solution could likely be much more functional and elegant than my add-on code ever could.

Comment 4

[Claude Gohier]

The Swift Selection Search add-on works flawlessly for me.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/swift-selection-search/

Comment 5

[Olivier de Broqueville]

I have also stopped using Firefox and no longer wish to participate in Firefox add-on development.

I am willing to sell the extension source code and all rights on the extension to Mozilla for a reasonable fee to make up for all the time that went into developing the extension.

Comment 6

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello,

I could not reproduce the issue on the latest Nightly (89.0a1/20210323094659), Beta (88.0b2/20210323190052) or Release (87.0/20210318103112) under Windows 10 x64 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Tested with several extensions (Context Search, Swift Selection Search, ContextSearch web-ext, Simple Context Search) and all work fine.

Comment 7

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to Alex Cornestean from comment #6)

Hello,

I could not reproduce the issue on the latest Nightly (89.0a1/20210323094659), Beta (88.0b2/20210323190052) or Release (87.0/20210318103112) under Windows 10 x64 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Tested with several extensions (Context Search, Swift Selection Search, ContextSearch web-ext, Simple Context Search) and all work fine.

This bug is NOT about running the extension(s) in Firefox. This bug is about putting that functionality into Firefox itself.
Thank you.

Comment 8

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

feature request for firefox

Comment 9

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

As I said last time, this is a feature request for firefox. Don't bounce it without explanation.

Comment 10

[Pablo]

Changing Enhancement to Search component.
regards

Comment 11

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

For future bugs that are filed, it would be nice to have a description of the part(s) of the add-on that should be ported, or at least a description of what functionality is provided by the add-on that is desired.

That said, the add-on is providing access to all the search providers in the context menu, that makes this a duplicate of bug 1136131.

Comment 12

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to Ben Basson from comment #3)

I decided some time ago to stop using Firefox and to cease participation in Firefox add-on development, so please leave me out of the discussion.

You can do what you want with my source code (it's available and MPL tri-licenced), but a direct in-browser solution could likely be much more functional and elegant than my add-on code ever could.

Is that "source code" still around somewhere?

Comment 13

[Botond Ballo [:botond]]

(In reply to Worcester12345 from comment #12)

(In reply to Ben Basson from comment #3)

I decided some time ago to stop using Firefox and to cease participation in Firefox add-on development, so please leave me out of the discussion.

You can do what you want with my source code (it's available and MPL tri-licenced), but a direct in-browser solution could likely be much more functional and elegant than my add-on code ever could.

Is that "source code" still around somewhere?

Looks like https://github.com/benbasson/contextsearch