60477 - Choosing search engine for search panel at search time

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 44724

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Håvard Dahle]

Given the convenience and ease of writing plugins for search engines, having the
choose-one-of-these-engines-list only in the ``Preferences'' menu seems
cumbersome. Implementing some sort of availability to choose engine at search
time would be Smart, Sweet and Custiomizable ( I might Service Mark that one day :)

Comment 1

[Håvard Dahle]

I must say I am truly emberassed. Really emberassed. It has come to my attention that the very thing I was moaning about is as easy as Search->My search tab->Advanced. So feel free to mock me :o/
But nonetheless, the reason that I didn't find it was that I expected this setting to appear in the preferences panel under 'Internet Search'. Would it be an idea to implement this?

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Don't be embarrassed, it's a silly design which made it hard for you to find the 
option.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44724 ***

Comment 3

[Diego]

Verified dupe of bug 44724: "Search | My Sidebar Search Panel is silly"