276198 - History Quicksearch: keywords instead of exact phrase

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[blujay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

Currently, when you press Ctrl+H to bring up the history sidebar, and type a few
words in the quicksearch bar at the top, an exact phrase match is done. 
However, a Google-like keyword search would be far more useful.

For example, sometimes I want to recall a recent Google search.  I can press
Ctrl+H and type "google" into the quicksearch bar, but I may need to narrow it
down further.  Say I want a search about Linux.  So I type in "google linux",
expecting to see all Google searches related to linux.  Instead I get Zarro
results.  The HTML title of the Google result page is "Google Search: search
terms"--in this case, "Google Search: linux image organizer"--but when I type in
"google linux", I get nothing.  Instead I have to type in "google search linux".
 That, obviously, is counter-intuitive.

A keyword search would be far more useful here.  Then I could simply type
"google whatever" and get all recent Google searches that included the
"whatever" keyword, and I could also narrow it down by adding another keyword.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

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

I believe that the Enhanced History Manager may offer this ability. You can get
that at http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=504 .

Either way, this will probably be covered by bug 208795.

Comment 2

[blujay]

I hope not.  That bug wants a lot more than a simple change from an exact phrase
search to a keyword search.

Comment 3

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

(In reply to comment #2)
> I hope not.  That bug wants a lot more than a simple change from an exact phrase
> search to a keyword search.

That bug covers a lot, so odds are this functionality will probably be included.
Either way, I simply marked it as "depends on". One could argue it may also be a
"blocks" relationship... but it all depends on which is fixed first.

Comment 4

[Ivan Ičin]

WFM

Comment 5

[blujay]

Apparently Firefox 3 fixed this.