32640 - RFE: Add own search engines to sidebar

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Search results in my toolbar also overflowed the box. Please refer to my last 
bug. Also, you should be able to add your own engines. If you can already, make 
it easier to figure out.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Problem WORKSFORME in 2000032011. Adding your own engines is almost certainly on 
the list of things to be done, although it may require some programming and so 
not be a user operation; I am however, converting this bug to an enhancement 
and changing Component to Sidebar.

Gerv

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Reassigning.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Call me naive, but why would it require programming? All you have to do is have 
a dialog box come up that asks the user the domain, such as search.excite.com, 
and the phrase. Is it parsing the phrase that requires the programming? If so, 
JScript would probably work fine. Then search sites could give you the JS code 
to add to mozilla, or advanced users could write it themselves and post it on 
the internet.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

The files relating to this are chrome/search/content/default/search-panel.*.

Adding new engines means telling Mozilla how to interface with them. This 
requires some sort of programming, and is not a user-option. You could have a 
button on websites marked "Add this engine to Mozilla" but, for security 
reasons, the Moz team takes a dim view of random websites being permitted to 
alter the browser :-)

At least, that's AIUI.

Gerv

Comment 5

[Paul MacQuiddy]

spam: changing qa contact on sidebar bugs from paulmac to [e-mail] 
(all 67 of them!)

Comment 6

[Robert John Churchill]

See  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/search/technical.html

(Note: bug # 34217 affects this functionality.)

Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

verif.