724937 - Managing "Search the web for..." sites

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Josh Feingold]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
Build ID: 20120129021758

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to add other search engines for Thunderbird to use to "Search the web for..."  but couldn't figure out a way to do that.


Actual results:

Nothing.  Doesn't seem to be an option to add or subtract engines.


Expected results:

User should be able to use any search site via engine plugins available like: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html

Comment 1

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

Yep, they should.

I don't have time to work on it now, but if someone wants to pick this up and run with it, I'ld love to see it fixed.

Thanks,
Blake.

Comment 2

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Note for anyone thinking about doing this: you probably shouldn't bother until bug 335781 is fixed.

Comment 3

[Jb Piacentino]

If you don't need a UI for that:
Thunderbird OpenSearch follows Firefox OpenSearch specs. Have a look here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox and you can build your own search provider.

Comment 4

[Josh Feingold]

JB -

That may be, but once the build is done, there is no way to install it in thunderbird.

Take care,
Josh

Comment 5

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

(In reply to Josh Feingold from comment #4)
> That may be, but once the build is done, there is no way to install it in
> thunderbird.

Josh,

I believe that if you copy it into a "searchplugins" directory in your Thunderbird profile, it should show up in the list.

Could you give it a try, and report back?

Thanks,
Blake.

Comment 6

[Marcel Berteler]

In light of the change-over to Bing, can you please get this GUI in the next TB release so we can manage our own preferences?