348569 - Search bar drag and drop should apply to the search button only (and not the text field)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Jackie Liu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060813 BonEcho/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060813 BonEcho/2.0b1

Currently, dragging and dropping text to the search bar's text area will immediately search the text dropped there using the selected search engine.  IMHO, dragging and dropping text onto the search button (magnifying glass) should initiate a search for the text dropped there, but dragging text to the search bar's text area should just display the text there.

This applies for Bon Echo and Minefield, but not for older versions as there is no "search button".

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Seems very uncomfortable to me. Not only because your movements need to be more precise (button surface is smaller) but also because not all people have the search button on their toolbar. In that case you always need to do an extra click.
People have already the possibility to drag a search term to the location bar, in which case they can edit the text first before clicking Go. It will do a search according to the keyword.URL.

I thought I saw this bug before so possibly this is a dupe. 
 

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I don't agree. There isn't much harm in searching immediately, and as Ria said, having to hit the button just makes the drop target smaller.

Comment 3

[Jackie Liu]

Perhaps an user would want to "build" a search out of a few keywords, though?  If the user wanted to do a search immediately, they could then drop it on the "search" button.

Comment 4

[WulfTheSaxon [:Wulf]]

This seems to make more sense now that the button is inside the search box.

I frequently want to search for something in a new tab, and the fastest way to do that would be to drag the text to the search box and then middle-click the search button. (Another way would be the ability to middle-click the "Search {default search provider} for '{selected text}'" context menu item.)

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

With one-off searches implemented, dropping text always adds the text to the search fieldand never runs a search, so this bug doesn't apply anymore.