377736 - Allow multiple keywords for one bookmark

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Wood]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

This is for just the "multiple keywords" part of bug 265401: Bookmarks should be allowed more than one keyword, so for example if you have a bookmark to a page called "Wikipedia" you could create two keywords: "wp" and "wikipedia".

The equivalent Mozilla bug is bug 68384.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

This seems like a dupe of part of bug 265401 which was resolved WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Chris Wood]

Bug 265401 is WONTFIXED because of the other part; if this bug is a dupe/wontfix then bug 68384 should be WONTFIX also.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Bug 68384 specifically applies to SeaMonkey (formerly applying to the Mozilla Suite). I don't see any duplicates of this RFE within the Firefox product and I'm pretty sure the implementations are separate between Fx and Sm, so, confirming.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

You can create multiple copies of a bookmark if you really need this, but I don't think it's especially useful as a core feature.

Comment 5

[Vika]

Seems all copies of the same bookmark change their properties at the same time so I can't set different keywords for each of them. This feature would be really useful for multilingual PCs where letters like "a" and "ф" are on the same physical key but with different layouts enabled and mistyping keyword in a wrong layout is a common thing, modern search engines would fix this automatically but Firefox can't even admit to that stage because multiple keywords (e.g. in different layouts) feature is missing.

Comment 6

[Mike]

As for me, this missing feature is a really annoying thing.
I very often have to switch between different languages (e.g. English and Russian) and would like to be able to call the same search engine with appropriate keywords (e.g. English "g" and Russian "г" for the Google Web search, "gi" and "ги" for Google Images, "gm" and "гм" for Google Maps etc.).

Without the possibility to define multiple keywords in different languages, you always have to first switch to the language you used for the shortcut definition and then back to the language in which you are actually working. This is very annoying. A possible workaround is to install multiple search engines (or to create multiple otherwise unnecessary bookmarks) - one for each language. Unfortunately even this is not enough. I am not speaking about the case when you want to use different combinations such as "w" and "wiki" for "Wikipedia". There is a more severe problem: as mentioned by Vika in the comment above, in different languages the corresponding letters are located on different keys, e.g. the Cyrillic "г" (Russian "g") which one would use as a shortcut for Google search, is not located on the same key as the English "g" but rather on the "u" key. This means that you have to use different key combinations for the same shortcut in different languages. It happens very often that out of habit you type shortcuts in the wrong keyboard layout, e.g. "u" instead of "г" and "п" instead of "g" for Google search.
As a result you submit a query with a preceding shortcut to the default search engine.

As you can see, it would be very helpful for all users of multilingual PCs to be able to define multiple keywords to cover those use cases. As I said, currently you need to add quite a number of search engines or bookmarks in order to cover all combinations - which is unnecessary and quite annoying.

Also, allowing multiple comma-separated shortcuts would be only consequent due to the fact that the keyword feature is considered as a replacement of several popular add-ons such as Instantfox (see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/instantfox/reviews/848131/) etc. But the Instantfox add-on allowed assignment of multiple keywords to the same search!

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

As I suggested elsewhere, a possible workaround may consist into adding a ref to the url (even just something like #randomnumber)
Keywords wont' be here forever, we have a plan to move them to custom search engines, and we'll keep this issue in mind when doing that.

Comment 8

[Mike]

Thank you! As for me - I normally don't use keywords for the regular bookmarks (the autocomplete and the tag features are actually sufficient for calling regular URLs). So I am much more interested in the possibility to properly edit the search engines and their queries and especially in the possibility to define multiple keywords for a search engine - and this as soon as possible. :)