246345 - searching a site using the google search bar

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[abs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040610 Firefox/0.8 StumbleUpon/1.99
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040610 Firefox/0.8 StumbleUpon/1.99

when u're on a site (like at mozilla.org) and u want to search for a word on the
site, in google u'd do something like 'download site:mozilla.org'. any way to
make this easier to do when using the search bar so i don't have to type the
'site:mozilla.org' part, assuming i'm already at some page of mozilla.org?

this has to be a general solution, not the keyword thing for a particular
domain/site. and preferably, something we type in the search tab (not the
address tab).

all that needs to be done is capture Ctrl+Enter or Shift+Enter for the search
tab. if google is selected engine, add a " site:"+domain to the google search
string. one keyset does that, other does it and opens results in a new tab.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. search for any word using search bar.
2. to search just that site, add a ' site:thissite.com'
3. press enter

Actual Results:  
google searches the site.

Expected Results:  
that site should be searched without having to enter ' site:thissite.com' and
function this way using Ctrl+Enter or Shift+Enter and show results in a new tab.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

The "google site search" bookmarklet on
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/search.html lets you do this.

Comment 2

[abs]

(In reply to comment #1)
yeah, but i don't browse with the bookmarks toolbar on, and even if use the
bookmarks menu, it's inconvinient. would *prefer* to be able to use the feature
from the search bar, which is always visible.

the searching for highlighted term is nice, but no big advantage.

Comment 3

[Neil Jenkins]

OK then. Just create a new bookmark with the following URL (without the quotes):
"javascript:location.href='http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&as_sitesearch='+document.domain;void(null)"
and give it a keyword, say 'ss'. Now when ever you want to search the current
site you just type 'ss <search terms>' into the URL bar (which is always
visible) and hit enter.

Comment 4

[abs]

cool. perfect. brilliant. i couldn't find the pref where we can choose that
Ctrl+Enter in location bar opens the link in a new tab. it's there in the
mozilla suite but can't find it in firefox.

and, could this be added as a feature in future versions? would be useful if
available by default. (especially for ppl who 'convert')

Comment 5

[Gids Goldberg]

Alt + Enter in used instead of Ctrl + Enter in Firefox

Comment 6

[abs]

noted. unfortunately, when i do that, the site string becomes 'null'. any
possible workaround?

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Ping.

Any possible reason why this hasn't gotten closed since it's doable via a
bookmarklet?

Comment 8

[abs]

(In reply to comment #7)

yeah. it should be closed since the issue was resolved with Neil Jenkins'
method: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246345#c3

the alt + enter problem hasn't been fixed though. i'm using 'duplicate tab' as a
workaround.

closing.