647797 - Provide Opensearch plugin on new developer.mozilla.org

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 726982

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Wiki pages, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Florens Verschelde :fvsch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
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The old website/pages referenced this Opensearch plugin:
https://developer.mozilla.org/deki/gui/opensearch.php?type=description
There is an existing bug for removing this plugin since it sends to a broken search engine: Bug 631680.

This is a feature request for creating a new Opensearch plugin, sending requests to the new search feature, and for referencing it from all pages in the new website.

Additionally, it might be a good idea to redirect the old Opensearch URL to the new one. It seems the old Opensearch plugin didn't include options for automatic update, so this may not be enough for updating the plugins for end users who had installed the old plugin. Perhaps all requests should be rewritten for the new engine? Or requests to the old engine should show a page or message offering to install the new plugin.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

This is a good idea. But since the current search is only a custom Google search it might make sense to wait until we implement our new search system

Comment 3

[Sonny Piers [:sonny]]

We probably don't want to wait anymore, are you willing using a custom google search plugin?

Comment 4

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Marking as a duplicate of 726982 -- dev on the opensearch plugin is done, now to implement our own search.