276935 - quick search bookmark when clicked, should search text selections

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[nrlz]

If I set up a bookmark with a keyword and '%s' in the URL, I know I can open it
by typing it in the location bar. It would also be nice if I could open it by
*clicking* on it from the 'Bookmarks' menu or the 'Bookmarks Toolbar'. And since
I am not explicitly typing in any search text, it should search any *selected
text( that I select on the current webpage.

Scenario 1:
Everytime I want to search 'Dictionary.com' for a word from a webpage, I have
to: [mouse], select, copy, [keyboard], type 'dict', paste, enter. I recently
discovered Jesse Ruderman's Bookmarklets
(http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/) which allowed me to directly add a
javascript bookmark to my 'Bookmarks Toolbar' so I can just [mouse], select,
click bookmark button.

But then I thought, not everyone knows javascript, so not everyone will know how
to create a Bookmarklet for their favorite searches. And also, I already have a
bookmark-search for Dictionary.com so why can't I merge them both together?
Hence this enhancement request.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 3

[Viktor]

I just would like to give a vote for this enhancement with some other enhancements.

If the quicksearch-bookmark is clicked without a selected text then an input box should pop-up asking for the searched word. - given that quicksearch is a bookmark I can imagine that it is hard to realize

If I move my mouse over a quicksearch bookmark line then a label(? Like "Refresh this page" over the refresh button) should appear that says me the quicksearch letters as "Use: dict <word>" or something similar.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (away Aug 5-12, Aug 19-21)]

This would be a really poorly discoverable thing, comment 0 points out that bookmarklets are just for experts, but the suggested solution is clearly not better since it's still something just a minimal part of users may know about.
A different story is "Search <engine> for <selection>" in context menu of a selection, since that is feasible with a single engine, something we can't do with multiple keywords.