461985 - "Add a keyword for this search" should use search plugins

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261124

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[mozilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1b1) Gecko/20081007 Firefox/3.1b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1b1) Gecko/20081007 Firefox/3.1b1

Now that we can have keywords for search plugins, it would make sense to change the behavior of "Add a keyword for this search".

Instead of adding a bookmark with a keyword (which led to problems like Bug 435954, Bug 298697, or Bug 253457, and didn't add the search to the search bar), it could make use of Open Search plugins:

- it could check whether the current site offers a search plugin itself
- provide a way to search for existing plugins for the current site at AMO/Mycroft
- generate a custom Open Search plugin (Bug 261124)

...and open a dialog to set a keyword for the new search plugin.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Ryan, is it something we ever can fulfill? Sounds like a complex action.

Comment 2

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

Bug 261124 has a patch that adds this menu item - any such patch would have to sort out how it interacts with search keywords, so I'm just going to dupe that over.