713394 - Provide ability to search for images as we do with text

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[Paul [pwd]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20111223 Firefox/12.0a1
Build ID: 20111223032107

Steps to reproduce:

When text is highlighted and a user opens a context menu, the user is provided with the option to "Search Google for XXX", the option should be replicated for images, so users can "Search Google for image" using Google's image search.

Comment 1

[Paul [pwd]]

Added link to an extension that provides similar functionality.

Comment 2

[Loic]

And if the default search engine selected in the search bar doesn't provide any function to search for images?

Comment 3

[Paul [pwd]]

I would in that case provide UI within the content tab of the options to set the image search provider.

Comment 4

[Zhenshuo Fang (:fang) - Firefox UX Team]

The context menu for image is already very busy, and this is not a feature that most of our users need. Plus, the add-on seems to do the job. So I think we shouldn't put this feature in the context menu by default.

Comment 5

[Paul [pwd]]

Thanks for taking the time to rely fang. Feel free to WONTFIX accordingly.

Comment 6

[u428464]

(In reply to Zhenshuo Fang (:fang) - Firefox UX Team from comment #4)
> The context menu for image is already very busy, and this is not a feature
> that most of our users need. Plus, the add-on seems to do the job. So I
> think we shouldn't put this feature in the context menu by default.

It could simply replace the place for text search. I think it's a good idea to have the ability to search for images. This could be part of the multi search project.

Comment 7

[Paul [pwd]]

(In reply to Guillaume C. [:ge3k0s] from comment #6)
> (In reply to Zhenshuo Fang (:fang) - Firefox UX Team from comment #4)
> > The context menu for image is already very busy, and this is not a feature
> > that most of our users need. Plus, the add-on seems to do the job. So I
> > think we shouldn't put this feature in the context menu by default.
> 
> It could simply replace the place for text search. I think it's a good idea
> to have the ability to search for images. This could be part of the multi
> search project.

Text search doesn't appear in the context menu of image does it? I believe this feature would be on parity with text search and that there would be huge gains to make from it, but fang has made a very fair argument.

Comment 9

[u428464]

Even if it is WONTFIXED it's now a [parity Chrome]

Comment 10

[u428464]

http://chrome.blogspot.ch/2013/10/search-by-image-and-new-chrome-for.html