360606 - on right clicking highlighted text, give option to use choose from all installed search engines

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 248173

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[HolyCrap]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

I have a number of search engines installed e.g. google, imdb, webster's and ebay to name a few. 
i like the fact that we can just highlight text on a webpage and right click and it gives you the option to directly launch your current search engine for that text. what's annoying is that i can do this only for the current (or last used) search engine. i could be searching for something on google at one point and the next search could be looking up a movie on imdb or looking up the meaning of a word on websters... its not the same type of search ALL the time. currently the only way to change this would be to FIRST change the current search engine by going to the search toolbar and then highlighting the text on the webpage and then right clicking... all this could be made a lot more convenient if you ask me. 
I would suggest that in ADDITION to what we have already when right-clicking text, add another menu item like 'other search engines' that opens another pop-up menu listing all the other search engines installed.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Something like the updated Context Search extension?
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/240/

Comment 2

[HolyCrap]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Something like the updated Context Search extension?
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/240/
> 

yeah! just installed this extension...helps a lot!... but personally, I was hoping for (like I mentioned in the bug) this functionality IN ADDITION TO the option of using the current search engine. 
on what basis do things like these get assimilated into the core firefox program?
thanks

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248173 ***