307641 - add a menu entry and a button in the toolbars for "search web for <selected text>"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[Nicolas VERITE]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050907 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050907 Firefox/1.4

There is a context menu entry when right clicking on a selected text which is
"search web for <selected text>".

Context menu is IMHO the latest place where people look for a feature.

There is no icon in the toolbars nor no menu entry for this feature, thus people
do not know it.

I should Firefox should implement a button and a menu entry in "Tools".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select a phrase or a word.
2.There is no menu entry nor no button to "search the web for" the selected text



Expected Results:  
A new button and a menu entry in "Tools".

[This report is in the Toolbars component, but should also be in the Menus
component.]

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

This would be the equivalent of adding copy and paste to a toolbar... it's bad
UI and is just wrong IMO. Probably a WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

of course, we have those items...

Anyway, this is really a context-driven feature, and doesn't need a top-level menuitem, IMO.