2007383 - Dragging text to the new search bar is loaded immediately, rather than allowing selection of a different search engine

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P2)

Description

[gwarser]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:148.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/148.0

Steps to reproduce:

-Select text on web page
-drag it into the search bar

Actual results:

Search is executed immediately

Expected results:

• I should be able to select the search engine before search
• I should be able to edit my dragged text before search
• the dragged text should "wait" for further edits / added content / be kept as reminder for me without any action

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Search' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Updating summary to describe the issue.

Comment 3

[Petruta Horea [:phorea]]

This was the behaviour in the legacy search bar, thus confirming.

Comment 4

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

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:standard8, could you have a look please?

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Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

We're going to discuss this with the user experience team.

One thing to note, is that you can select the engine before dragging and dropping, though obviously you have to remember to do it in the right order.

Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: Bug 2007383 - Don't automatically submit when dropping on the search bar. r=mbeier

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/52c66446034d
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/e23153458be5
Don't automatically submit when dropping on the search bar. r=mbeier,urlbar-reviewers

Comment 8

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e23153458be5

Comment 9

[Petruta Horea [:phorea]]

Verified as fixed using Nightly 148.0a1 2026-01-12, across platforms.