412966 - Search toolbar should be able to import Google Custom / allow the creation of custom searches from right click context menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Danial Horton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

Since Google toolbar is no longer supported, those of us who used its custom search function no longer have access to those features.

what i suggest is allowing the custom searches be imported from the google settings into the Firefox search toolbar, and then allow us to create custom searches when we right click on a search box.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Danial, about which missing feature are you talking? Can you please give us more insight?

Comment 2

[Danial Horton]

:) Sure,
Currently you can only add custom search engines using MyCroft, OpenSearch plugin, or if a site already has the search engine available for adding to the browser.  I'm just suggesting that it should be included in Firefox by default.

Comment 3

[Danial Horton]

The ability to add custom search engines that is^

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Don't we list search engines when searching via the search bar in the add-ons manager? Searching in other directories would mean to use the API of the given website - if it is available at all. I feel this should better be an extension related feature. Wontfix?

Comment 5

[Zhenshuo Fang (:fang) - Firefox UX Team]

I can see this an extension rather than a feature.