Closed Bug 898863 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Enhancement Idea: Implement Google Site Search and similar into OpenSearch Box

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Search
Version:
22 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 360907

People

(Reporter: gaming4jc2, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130627 Iceweasel/22.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20130627101057

Steps to reproduce:

1) Go to a site containing lots of information but no search engine.
2) Manually copy the hostname and prepare it for a google site search...
3)Paste the following query into the current Google OpenSearch:
site:bugzilla.mozilla.org bugs

4) Press Enter.



Actual results:

I am then able to search for the term "bugs" only on the bugzilla.mozilla.org site.


Expected results:

A much nicer idea would be:
1) Click the dropdown menu in the OpenSearch bar.
2) Click a checkbox or other means of "Use this search engine on current website"
3) Type my search query.

In this way I wouldn't need the "site:hostname query" which is confusing for some.
The same query works with Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and StartPage. So it shouldn't be difficult to implement between engines and it resolves the need for making this into an extension when it can be included directly.
Dropping to enhacnment and triaging.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Search
Thanks for the report. Bug 360907 seems to cover the temporary site search use case whereas bug 482229 covers persisting the site-search engine.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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