309862 - Combine the search engines and the smart keywords

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261124

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[bboy123]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Smart keywords and the search engine toolbar should be integrated. If an user
can easily add to the search toolbar, it will be a big plus for FF. Use favicon
for the search engine icon. 

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Do you mean that users should be able to type their keyword & search term in the
searchbar instead of the locationbar? This would be problematic, as a lot of
users hide the searchbar but very few hide their addressbar.

There is also a big difference between search engines and bookmarks. Search
engines are stored in the searchplugins folder and bookmarks in bookmarks.html.
They have no relation.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261124 ***

Comment 3

[bboy123]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you mean that users should be able to type their keyword & search term in the
> searchbar instead of the locationbar? This would be problematic, as a lot of
> users hide the searchbar but very few hide their addressbar.
> 
> There is also a big difference between search engines and bookmarks. Search
> engines are stored in the searchplugins folder and bookmarks in bookmarks.html.
> They have no relation.

No, I meant the average user should have an easy way to add a search engine. 
For example, let's say the user wants to add the www.nytimes.com's search to the
search engine. FF should use the favicon from www.nytimes.com and a method
similar to the smart keyword to build a new search engine. This would give the
user more power to customize their FF.