467066 - Search bookmarked sites

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286544

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[bcw]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: All browsers

This is NOT a bug reporting.
Request to enhance Firefox features.
We all use to add bookmarks feature very frequently.
But when we search for something it will not be easy
to search the bookmarked sites.
A utility may be added, only to search the bookmarked sites.
It may take little processing time, but seems very useful.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Add a new button to search from the ookmarked sites.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

"It may take little processing time"

Are you kidding ? This would require downloading all the URL's that were bookmarked (could be hundreds or thousands of websites !)

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Typing * followed by the search term should show you bookmarks. Or do I misunderstand this bug?

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, you marked "All Browsers", we only cover Mozilla products here. I am thinking you mean Firefox trunk for this (only version this could possibly be put in). 

@Ria, I think the reporter more wants to search the content of those sites, and not titles, urls, etc.

I aggee with Jo, this seems very unlikely to be practical, and will probably en up WONTFIX.

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

In both cases this is probably a duplicate.

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

I assumed this was about searching the content of the various websites that make up the list of bookmarks for their culture.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

It's certainly feasible: Google Desktop and Spotlight routinely operate on larger amounts of data.

Comment 7

[Franklin Piat]

(In reply to comment #6)
> It's certainly feasible: Google Desktop and Spotlight routinely operate on
> larger amounts of data.

Beagle does it.

Also, see:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484187

Comment 8

[bcw]

(In reply to comment #6)
> It's certainly feasible: Google Desktop and Spotlight routinely operate on
> larger amounts of data.
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 286544 ***

Yes, this is already there in 286544.
It is better to think on the assumption that, a person
who bookmarks will keep items in sub-folders.
Searching can be limited to that folder and uto a maximum
of 5 to 10 sites, whatever feasible.
It the search engine like Altavisa and Google provisions are
there for giving URL: and Site: prefixes.
Same method can be adopted.

Now I guess this suggestion has to go to 
Search Engine Project Developers !!!!.

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

IMO, this is still a dup.  You can add that suggestion to bug 286544.