497555 - Searching in Search Tools only searches for search engines and excludes extensions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect, P3)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

1. Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/browse/type:4
2. Search for "Peers" or one of the recommended add-ons.

Actual result: Searching in Search Tools only searches for search engines and excludes extensions

Expected: Include the extensions

The page has "Search _Engines_ ..." as title.

Comment 2

[fcp]

Expected Results:
The extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6589 is shown as a result.

Comment 4

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

So "Search Tools" assumes we're looking for "Search Engines" - meaning the addon type search tools.

I'm not sure what the intent of Categories are supposed to be.  Clearly "Search Tool" extensions are different from "Search Engines" so we could quickly solve this by listing "Search Engines" and "Search Tools" as two separate items.

Flagging as [ddn]

Comment 5

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I'm not sure what the intent of Categories are supposed to be.  Clearly "Search
> Tool" extensions are different from "Search Engines" so we could quickly solve
> this by listing "Search Engines" and "Search Tools" as two separate items.

This is the last (?) remainder of the hybrid categories we tried out for a while. We might indeed want to get rid of those now.

Comment 6

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

The Search Tools landing page is definitely in need of some help, but I'm not ready to say that we should split them into separate categories again. Normal users won't and shouldn't have to know the difference between Search Tools the category of Extensions and Search Providers the add-on type.

Comment 7

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Search is no longer per-category on the category landing page.