288622 - no tooltip/title for selected search site on search box icon

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258672

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[jan klopper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Since you can add custom searches to the search box which might have the same or
no icon, it would be nice to have a simple tooltip/popup containing the
currently selected search engines name.

I for example have 2 sets of 2 custom search plugins extra, since both pairs go
to their own website, i used their favicon as their icon. Meaning that i now
cannot tell by the icon to which search im going.

(for example i can search names on site X, and tel numbers on site X, they both
have the same icon since i can tell them apart by the label next to them.)

A different option would be place the name of the engine grayed out in the
search box, and remove it for user input when a user clicks it. It would then be
visible without the onmouseover wait.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.add 2 custom searches with same icons, or no icon
2.click one of the two new searches,
3.notice you can't tell witch one you selected.



Expected Results:  
showed me the lable of the selected search site on the background of the search
box (grayed out (altough that might look like its disabled), or as a
tooltip/title for the icon.)

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

-> Enhancement

Comment 2

[Chris Blore]

This is a dupe of bug 258672. It was decided that that bug could not be fixed at
the time but perhaps you could try posting there to see what can be done.

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258672 ***