453789 - Allow multiple keywords for search engines

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Emil Ivanov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

Sometimes I want to search in different language than English. And if my keyboard layout is already switched to Bulgarian, I have to switch back to English and then switch again to Bulgarian, all this just to type the keyword in English!

It will be very useful if I am able to use 2 different keywords for one search engine like "g" for Google in English and "г" when my keyboard is switched to Bulgarian.

Different keywords could be separated with comma.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

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

I don't think this feature would be useful to enough Firefox users to consider including it in the product by default.

It should be relatively easy to implement as an extension, though. I can help out and provide assistance if you (or someone else) is interested in investigating that.

Comment 3

[Please Ignore This Troll (Account Disabled)]

This function would actually be useful for many users, as english might be their 2nd language and there are many mistakes possible when you want to translate for example a russian word into english - you have to:
1. switch keyboard layout to english (or check if it already is)
2. type keyword
3. switch keyboard layout to russian
4. type the word you wanted to translate

same search area is used for translating into both ways, so in case you think making the keyword in russian would help - no it generally won't, as I might want to translate from english into russian.
The only solution is to perform many (more than needed) keyboard layout checks/changes or duplicating search engines (and I don't know yet if it's possible).

Comment 4

[member]

Why on Earth would you not fix this bug?

Comment 5

[Shane Hughes [:aminomancer]]

Can we reconsider this bug, now that it's not practical to implement this by extension? It shouldn't be too difficult to extend aliases to include a list of user-defined aliases (= comma-separated values) folded into the list of keywords from the manifest.

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to Shane Hughes [:aminomancer] from comment #5)

Can we reconsider this bug, now that it's not practical to implement this by extension? It shouldn't be too difficult to extend aliases to include a list of user-defined aliases (= comma-separated values) folded into the list of keywords from the manifest.

We are hoping to look at keywords at some stage in the hopefully not too distant future as they are inconsistently used/applied today. I wouldn't want to extend them for multiple aliases at this time, in case that makes the work more difficult. However, I have added this to the list of things to think about when we do that work.

Comment 7

[Shane Hughes [:aminomancer]]

(In reply to Mark Banner (:standard8) from comment #6)

We are hoping to look at keywords at some stage in the hopefully not too distant future as they are inconsistently used/applied today. I wouldn't want to extend them for multiple aliases at this time, in case that makes the work more difficult. However, I have added this to the list of things to think about when we do that work.

Nice! Feel free to contact me if/when you start that project. I'd enjoy learning more about the SearchEngine interface