467668 - The location bar should allow searching with multiple engine keywords, thus open several tabs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Delplace]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1) Gecko/20081007 Firefox/3.1b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1) Gecko/20081007 Firefox/3.1b1

It is very common to search the same stuff in several websites. Say, I want to search the word 'boudoir' simultaneously in Wikipedia (w), in Google (g), and in my favorite French dictionary (tlf). I would expect the location bar to detect when I type several (N) search engine keywords in a row, and open N tabs, and let each engine search for the rest of the typed line.

Pattern (please note the spaces) :
(keyword )*(word )*word

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the location bar
2. Type 'w g tlf boudoir' and hit Enter

Actual Results:  
I get the Wikipedia search page for input 'g tlf boudoir'

Expected Results:  
Open tab 1 with the Wikipedia search 'boudoir'.
Open tab 2 with the Google search 'boudoir'.
Open tab 3 with the French dictionary search 'boudoir'.

Basically the issue is exactly the same whether you try to use bookmark keywords or search engine keywords.

Comment 1

[Delplace]

Please note it is *not* a dupe of #453789 .

Comment 2

[Andre Klapper]

(In reply to Delplace from comment #0)
> It is very common to search the same stuff in several websites.

I disagree. What brings you to this assumption? Any stats for that?

Comment 3

[Delplace]

(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #2)
> (In reply to Delplace from comment #0)
> > It is very common to search the same stuff in several websites.
> 
> I disagree. What brings you to this assumption? Any stats for that?

Unfortunatly not.
100% of myself, which represents roughly 0% of the total amount of firefox users.

Comment 4

[dE]

This appears to be a good idea, but won't be used by much users.

I suggest this should be added, voting.

Also the should the platform should be changed to all cause - 

Computer != Windows
Firefox is a Microsoft product
and
Technology != Microsoft

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

The intended behavior for multiple searches is the multi-search project https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Desktop/multi-Search
There is no plan to open multiple tabs in the product for searching, though an add-on could provide this functionality.