Closed Bug 246460 Opened 21 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Make search drop-down extensible by search plugins (same way as Firefox)

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 201723
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: mikepinkerton)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040517 Camino/0.8b Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040517 Camino/0.8b When trying to install new searchplugins from http://mycroft.mozdev.org, I get the error message http://mycroft.mozdev.org/error.html: "Builds between 2003-09-14 and 2003-09-27 have a bug which prevents you to install search plugins from this site. Please refer to Bug 219534. If you are seing this, then you might want to download a newer version." This message obviously not to Camino and the mentioned bug is on Firefox. Couldn't find a similar Camino bug --> opening this one. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://mycroft.mozdev.org and select a searchplugin 2. Try to install it. 3. Actual Results: Get the abovementioned error message Expected Results: The searchplugin should have been installed.
Camino doesn't have any support for what you wish.
Resolving Invalid. Camino has no Search Sidebar tab, which is what these plug-ins are intended for.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Don't understand this -- Camino has a search dropdown the same way as Firefox has and they are installable with Firefox --> Reopening as RFE. Resolve it again, please, if the search drop-down should not be extensible as Firefox's is.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Changing summary.
Summary: Can't install searchplugins → Make search drop-down extensible by search plugins (same way as Firefox)
i don't think we actually want to do this. last time i spoke with ben i didn't want to use their mechanism.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Plus there was the idea thrown around to have a stand-alone utility to modify the search plist, which would fill the same need as a web-install method.
Bug 158246 implemented a search list around url-bar keywords. While this is possible (and Mozilla supports both formats), there is the established Apple sherlock format, which is used by the Mozilla searchplugins. I only can imagine that the implementory of bug 158246 didn't know about the sehrlock format and http://mycroft.mozdev.org. For me, it seems not to be the best solution, to establish an own format for Camino, while there are hundreds of search plugins already available at http://mycroft.mozdev.org.
Would it be a good idea to integrate the utility to modify the search engine plist from within Camino? Would there be way to add two item to the search drop down, one to manage the items and one to discover the search string for the web site viewed in the current page. If there is some interest in having a UI inside camino to manage the search string inside camino, let me know and i'll take a shot at it.
*** Bug 295150 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There is no searchplugin folder in the Camino.app. Probably Camino doesn't support searchplugin. Wouldn't it better to support the Firefox's searchplugin?
Bug 201723 is the way we're going to do this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201723 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago → 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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