387070 - Consider adding aliases/keywords to default/shipped search engines

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

Now that users can actually utilize them, we should consider shipping a set of keywords with our default search plugins.

Comment 3

[Luis Villa [Outside Counsel; for non-law use [e-mail]]]

Just a note that I think this would improve discoverability of the keyword search feature, and improve usage of the search feature, which would be good for the users. (Once I discovered this- yesterday- after... how many years?- I immediately went and installed a ton of search engines, because I'd never seen the point before.)

(Might also want to make the awesomebar surface things a little better once the keywords are populated, but that is probably a different bug.)

Comment 4

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

I just had a user tell me "you have to go and click and choose your search engine in FF, and in Chrome you just type the keyword."

I knew of the really old keyword feature, as I've been making my own keywords for a while, but I only discovered the fact that Firefox had separate UI for search engine keywords when I was formulating a response.

I think it would be wise to include keywords with all the default search engines.

Comment 6

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Mass bug change to replace various 'parity' whiteboard flags with the new canonical keywords. (See bug 1443764 comment 13.)

Comment 7

[Chris Bellini (:cbellini)]

Will need to determine the specific keywords for engines that don't have them currently, and the engines to receive them.