270310 - automatically update the searchbox words when you're searching directly in the search engine.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Jerry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

when direcly searching from a website, the search does not appear on the search
bar. There should be an option that lets you auto-update the search box.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to google.com
2.type in a search
3.the search result does not appear on the search bar

Actual Results:  
the search bar did not auto-update

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have an option to be able to auto-update the search box

Comment 1

[Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley]

More generally, the different search systems (e.g.: URI-bar keywords, the search
box, WWW site form of popular SEs, bookmarklets) should try as far as is
possible to use the same list of search words for autocompleting.

Comment 2

[Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley]

Also the `Find in this page' (FITP) search box should probably use the same
autocomplete database (at least at the option of the user).  It would be nice to
be able to easily copy the phrase you searched for in the SE box to the FITP box
too (and maybe vice versa).  Even better would be to, on pages which you got
through via a SERP link, add the word(s) you searched for to the FITP box and
automatically set highlighting on.

Comment 3

[Georges-Etienne Legendre]

Have you look at those extensions? Maybe it can help.
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=343 (only works
with Google)
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=376

Comment 4

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Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

looks like a valid enhancement
->NEW

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This is the kind of thing that is pretty much impossible to get right. You'd
have to somehow manage to retrieve the searched for string, and easy ways to do
that don't really exist. If Google changes their querystring format or their
results page markup, the "sniffing" fails. I'd say this is WONTFIX.

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Agreed.  This would be fragile at best, and with multiple tabs may seem unexpected.