312849 - Keyboard shortcuts for specific search engines

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Juho]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051016 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051016 Firefox/1.6a1

You press ctlr+alt+g and it would focus search box with google engine.
ctrl+alt+a would focus searchbox and select altavista if user has it in search
engines.

That would make life easier alot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See Bug 235131.

Comment 2

[Juho]

What about ctrl+symbol which would quick select engine in the list.

Comment 3

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

There are like 1600 search engines available at https://addons.mozilla.org/search-engines.php .  I don't think I have that many keys.

Workaround: in the search box, you can press F4 to bring up the menu of search engines, then press the first letter of one to select it immediately.

Marking this WONTFIX.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 337715 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Carlo Alberto Ferraris]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Workaround: in the search box, you can press F4 to bring up the menu of search
> engines, then press the first letter of one to select it immediately.

This workaround fails in many ways...
- the most obvious: what if multiple search engines have the same first letter (e.g. Wikipedia EN and Wikipedia IT, etc)
- in the italian localization, pressing the g key (Google should be selected) opens the search engine configuration dialog ("_G_estione motori di ricerca").

I'd dare to ask to reconsider the WONTFIX.

(thanks to Kevin for pointing me to this)

Comment 8

[Carlo Alberto Ferraris]

> There are like 1600 search engines available at
> https://addons.mozilla.org/search-engines.php .  I don't think I have that many
> keys.

quoting from bug #382436:
> As you said there might be a problem with the number of available shortcuts.
> Mind, I'm not saying that every search engine in the list should be assigned
> automatically a shortcut... the sweetest thing™ would be something like
> having the ability to manually specify the shortcuts in the "search engine
> settings" dialog (don't know what its official name is since my build is
> localized).