287444 - Needs interface to select a search engine for "Search web for"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 203959

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Percy Cabello]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

The search engine used by "Search web for.." should be configurable to ease web
usage. For example uring a research I may need to switch between a dictionary,
another language dictionary, a specialized encyclopedia, or plain Google. Or I
may be looking for info on movies so imdb becomes my convenient default search
engine.

Suggestion for UI: add a context menu to the search engines in the search box so
one can choose one of those as the "default search engine". This should also
govern searches performed from the location bar that by default goes to Google's
I feel lucky.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select a text in a web page
2.Right click on the selection 
3.Select "Serach web for"

Actual Results:  
The selected text is looked for with Google

Expected Results:  
Search the web with my defined default search engine

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 287219 ***

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Sorry, not exactly the same. Reopening.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Better dupe would be to the bug about using the currently selected search engine
to search with.

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

ok, found it

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203959 ***