418011 - idea: change search engine after highlight text and right click

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[tester]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Firefox 3 beta 3

1. the user highlight text on a webpage
2. right click on the mouse
3. oops, wrong search engine

4. now, the user change search engine (on the menu bar)
5. the text on the "right click IU" is changing while the user is mouseover on search engines.
6. the user select engine 
7. new tab is open with the new search  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 5. the text on the "right click IU" is changing while the user is mouseover on
> search engines.

How are you changing selected engines while the context menu is open?

> 6. the user select engine 
> 7. new tab is open with the new search  

So what's the bug? What are the expected and actual results? Need more information.

Comment 2

[tester]

4-7 it's idea

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

Impossible. You can't have 2 menus open at once.

Comment 4

[[:Cww]]

Marking it an enh for now, feel free to make it WONTFIX.

The what's wanted is if you have the wrong search engine chosen in the search bar, and you select search text, you can execute your search immediately after changing the search engine... so the context menu doesn't close.

I'm pretty sure you can't have the context menu open and click ANYWHERE else and keep it.  It's a pretty strong break from standard context menu UI.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Yeah, this would be very odd...