Closed Bug 327937 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Firefox doesn't allow you to create custom Search Plugins

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement, P3)

2.0 Branch
enhancement

Tracking

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: cricketmilki, Assigned: Gavin)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Firefox doesn't allow you to create custom Search Plugins.
However an extension called Search Engine Ordering allows the user to do this.
(This extension also allows to reorder and delete search plugins, but bugs are already filed for that, so won't bring that up much).

Opera 9 P2, Google Toolbar 4 Beta for IE allow you to create custom plugins.

Merging Add a Keyword along with Creating Search Plugin would be great

Reproducible: Always
*** Bug 327938 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The 'documentation' link at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ explains how to make your own search engines fyi.
(In reply to comment #2)
> The 'documentation' link at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ explains how to make
> your own search engines fyi.
> 

I think I'd prefer a one click process instead of the whole thing given in Mycroft, thank you.
Sounds like something already part of the roadmap for Fx2, Gavin?
Indeed.
Assignee: nobody → gavin.sharp
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 2 alpha2
Version: unspecified → 2.0 Branch
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: -- → P3
Flags: blocking-firefox2+
This is not something that's going to be useful to more than a small group of users, once bug 261124 is fixed.  Marking WONTFIX, an extension can be written to have whatever number of forms, and call addSearchEngineWithDetails.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Flags: blocking-firefox2+
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Target Milestone: Firefox 2 alpha2 → ---
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