429244 - Add "Search Web for" to textarea context menu (highlight text in text box could have url as option in dropdown menu)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 807326

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Tom Schneider]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9

To type these details, I'm typing into a text box.  Suppose I type something
and then decide that would be interesting to google.  So I highlight
the words I just typed and right-click on the words to get a dropdown menu.
But there is no option to launch google.  However, if the text is NOT in a text box, then I can highlight it and one option is 'Search Web for "my term"'.
So this is a suggestion to implement that same search as another dropdown
option.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type in a text box
2. highlight some of your words
3. right click on the highlight words
Actual Results:  
There is no option for searching the web.

Expected Results:  
It would be great that one of the options would be to search the web.

Since the code for highlighting, dropdown and launching the web search
already exist, it should be really easy and fun to implement this one!

Comment 1

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Confirming valid enhancement request.

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

I think this is fixed. Can anyone confirm?

Comment 3

[Tom Schneider]

let's see if I can launch a search for zebras ... "Zebras are several species of African equids" bingo!  It works for me now!  Thanks!

Comment 4

[Philip Chee]

Fixed by Bug 807326 - Context menu Search should be available in textareas/inputs as well (Port Bug 565717)