360907 - Search current site with OpenSearch (use a site's search provider without installing it)

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Alf Eaton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)

When visiting a site that provides OpenSearch, there should be an option at the top of the search engines drop-down list to "search current site", without having to install the search engine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a site that provides OpenSearch.
2. See the search engines icon light up.
3. Open the drop-down menu.

Actual Results:  
Option available to add the search engine for that site, at the bottom of the list.

Expected Results:  
An additional option to search the current site (perhaps using the site name from the OpenSearch description file) at the top of the list.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 07/21 - 08/08)]

Asking UX team about their opinion.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 07/21 - 08/08)]

Confirming to get this bug from the unconfirmed list.

Comment 3

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

Sure, what comment 0 asks for isn't unreasonable. I'm not sure anyone would ever discover or use this, though — the search pulldown isn't a raging success as far as users are concerned. :)

Comment 7

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